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A woman with a baby on her back tells the fortune of a passing horseman – he stands with his hand in hers. His horse stares out at us, its eyes large and soft compared with its owner’s, who stares intently at the woman to hear his fate. Beside them a second rider sits with a rifle at the ready in case of trouble.
This is not a real scene – these are Gypsies as imagined by the artist. Wouwerman’s fictional and romanticised scenes of the rough, tough life of soldiers in battle, Gypsies and brigands were highly popular in his own time, and were eagerly collected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Title
Two Horsemen at a Gipsy Encampment, One having his Fortune told
Date
1650-68
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 32 x W 35.9 cm
Accession number
NG2282
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Martin Colnaghi, 1908
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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