The Raree-show (’t Fraay Curieus), Willem van Mieris, 1718

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The Raree-show (’t Fraay Curieus), Willem van Mieris, 1718

oil on panel, h 58cm × w 49cm More details

The old Dutch title (in parentheses) refers to the cries ‘beautiful!’ (fraai) and ‘extraordinary!’ (curieus) with which itinerant performers announced themselves. Here a performer shows a wooden triptych with characters from a chivalric romance, while undoubtedly recounting the tale to those gathered around. Willem van Mieris was a ‘fine painter’, meaning that he rendered the scene in a highly detailed and refined manner. The painting is actually also a kind of peepshow.

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Identification

Title(s)

The Raree-show (’t Fraay Curieus)
De rarekiek (’t Fraay Curieus)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4941

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date: ‘W. Van Mieris Fec Ano 1718’

Description

De rarekiek (door de kunstenaar ' 't Fraay Curieus' genoemd). In een interieur toont een rondtrekkende Savooiaard een kijkkast ten overstaan van een familie met kinderen. In de rarekiek zijn scènes voorgesteld, wellicht uit een ridder- of andere populaire roman. De kamer staat vol huisraad: een spinnewiel, manden met fruit, speelgoedmolentjes, een mand, sloffen en een emmer met een bezem. Tegen de rechterwand staat een rij vaten waarop iemand een bord met vis heeft neergezet. Aan de rechtermuur een schilderij, tegen de achterwand een rek met kruiken. Aan het plafond hangt een vogelkooi.

Creation

Artist

painter: Willem van Mieris

Dating

1718

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

panel
oil paint (paint)

Measurements

height 58 cm × width 49 cm

Subject

What

minstrel, 'jongleur'
'fahrende Leute', vagrants
interior of the house
child and art
bird in a cage
fishes
peep-show

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Rijksmuseum Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1-Nov-1998

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Inv.; sale, Robert Hamilton(Norwood, Surrey), London (Christie's), 15 March 1832, no. 317, to Charles Heusch, London; his son, F. Heusch, London; from whom to Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879); ? by descent through the family to Baron Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918), Exbury, Hampshire; from whom to John Enrico Fattorini (1878-1949), Bradford, by 1944;…; collection Mrs J.E. Leacock, Amsterdam, before 1956;…; anonymous sale, Amsterdam (Christie's), 2 April 1976, no. 14;….; the Leger Galleries, London, 1977;…; private collection Engeland, 1989;…;{Provenance 1832-1998, reconstructed by Noortman 2007, cat. no. 11.} from the dealer R. Noortman, Maastricht, fl. 1,184.375, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Rijksmuseum Fonds, 1998

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

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.

Documentation

A farewell to Ronald de Leeuw : his favourite acquisitions for the Rijksmuseum, p. 58-59 met afb.
Nederlandse kunst in het Rijksmuseum 1700-1800, Reinier J. Baarsen, Dirk Jan Biemond, Robert-Jan A. te Rijdt, Frits Scholten, p. 54-55, cat.nr. 13
De Hollandse fijnschilders van Gerard Dou tot Adriaen van der Werff [ : 1 1989a], Peter Alexander Hecht
Het Rapenburg : geschiedenis van een Leidse gracht, A.J. van Dissel, C. Willemijn Fock, Theodoor Herman Lunsingh Scheurleer, deel II, p. 443 nr. 9, p. 369
Treasures of art in Great Britain : bein an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., and c., Gustav Friedrich Waagen, vol. II, p. 252
A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters : in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England : a reference to the galleries and private collections, in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added a brief notice of the scholars and imitators of the great masters of the above schools, Vol. I, nr. 35 en supplement (1842), nr. 35
Ter herinnering aan Rob Noortman, Wouter Theodoor Kloek, p. 74, afb. 4
Keuze uit de aanwinsten (1999-2/3), p. 214-215, afb. 1
De 18de eeuw in het Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Paul Knolle
'Recent acquisitions at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam', The Burlington Magazine (November 2000), p. 733 met afb. XI.
G. Jansen, 'De rarekiek', Bulletin Vereniging Rembrandt 9 (1999) 1, p. 20-22 met afb. in kleur.
C.W. Fock, 'Willem van Mieris en zijn mecenas Pieter de la Court van der Voort', LKJ 2 (1983), p. 277.

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