The Fortune Teller, c. 1640

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Medium

etching with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 34 × 49 cm (13 3/8 × 19 5/16 in.)

sheet: 35.1 × 50.2 cm (13 13/16 × 19 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Faya Causey in memory of Philip Conisbee

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF(1600), no. 32, State i/ii

Accession Number

2013.184.5

Artists / Makers

Jean Ganière (artist) French, died 1666

Valentin de Boullogne (artist after) French, 1591 - 1632

Augustin Quesnel (publisher) French, active 1639 - 1644

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Valentin pinxit et inuentor in Roma / Ganières sculpsit; lower right in plate: Aug. Quesnel excud. / Rue Betizi, A Paris; lower center in plate: four verses (Apres diverses adventures... / ...Que ceux qui s'amusent à boire); by later hand, lower center in graphite: H3; by later hand, lower center in brown ink: 38R(?)

Provenance

(Faya Causey, Washington, D.C.); gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Causey, Faya

Bibliography

1939: IFF (1600), no. 32, i/ii