Gamesters with a Gypsy Fortune-teller
manner of Bartolomeo Manfredi (Ustiano c.1580 – Rome 1620)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1620
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
953 x 1308 mm (37 1/2 x 51 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732145
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Gamesters with a Fortune-teller, manner of Bartolomeo Manfredi (Ustiano c. 1580 - Rome 1620), circa 1620. Three figures are seated at a table; a pack of cards lies on its corner with the three of clubs exposed and a young man, in the foreground, on the right, seen partly from behind, looks out at the spectator. He is dressed in a yellow and black striped doublet tied with red ribbons over a white shirt, white ruff and a feathered hat. A gypsy woman stands on the left, wearing a dull brown dress embellished with a blue ribbon, a red top and a white shawl over her head. She touches the outstretched palm of a woman, wearing light blue and a plumed headdress, who sits next to the young man. Another man sits in the background, centre, his face slighly shaded, looking down at the woman's palm.
Provenance
Acquired by Richard Colt Hoare 2nd Bt (1758 – 1838); given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of Bartolomeo Manfredi (Ustiano c.1580 – Rome 1620), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Caravaggio 1571 - Port'Ercole 1610) possibly French School possibly Dutch School
References
Waagen 1854-7: Gustav Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 3 vols. (translated by Lady Eastlake) with a supplementary volume: Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854-7, Vol.III, p. 172 George Sweetman, Guide to Stourhead, Wilts., 1907 Nicolson 1975 Benedict Nicolson, 'Caravaggesque Pictures in National Trust Houses', National Trust Year Book, 1975-76, p.5, pl.4. Nicolson 1979 Benedict Nicolson,The International Caravaggesque Movement: List of Pictures by Caravaggio and his Followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, 1979, p.72