Riverlandscape with Women Fortune-Telling

• Riverlandscape with Women Fortune-Telling
• River Landscape with Gypsies (former title)

SK-A-4033

Rivierlandschap met handlezende vrouwen. In het midden betaalt een vissersvrouw een handlezeres. Rechts leest een vrouw de hand van een visser. Links een tent met kinderen

signature, in ligated monogram, on the right, on a wooden box: ‘AA’

painter: Arent Arentsz (signed by artist)

c. 1625 - c. 1630

oil on panel

• support: height 48.5 cm x width 88.2 cm x thickness 0.5 cm
• outer size: depth 6 cm (support incl. frame)

purchase 1960-05-31

Public domain

...; sale, Jonkheer A.W. Witsen Baron Straalman (†) et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 November 1913 _sqq._, no. 319, fl. 500, to the dealer Frederik Muller;{Copy RKD.}...; sale, W.A. Royaards et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 20 June 1916 _sqq._, no. 177, fl. 700;...; sale, J. Groot Jamin et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 12 December 1922, no. 151, fl. 725;{Copy RKD.}...; sale, H.L. Klein et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 7 July 1931 _sqq._, no. 200, fl. 800;...; sale, C.A. van Hees (Reeuwijk), Amsterdam (Mak van Waay), 31 May 1960, no. 2, fl. 37,000, to the dealer A. Nijstad, Lochem;{Copy RKD.} from whom, fl. 44,030, to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Cat.tent. Hendrick Avercamp, De meester van het ijsgezicht, Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 2009, p. 159, afb. 212 (detail)

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