Johanna and the Jewish Merchants
Also titled Johanna en de Joodse kooplieden
Cornelis Troost (Amsterdam, 1696–1750)
1741
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 68.5 cm x width 86 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr and Mrs Leopold Siemens-Ruyter, Blaricum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Troost depicted a scene from the popular farce The Spendthrift or the Wasteful Woman. The central character, Johanna, wastes her new expensive finery on two Polish-Jewish traders, portrayed in a stereotypical manner. In reality, they are Johanna’s father and husband, who have disguised themselves in order to expose her. Perched on the chair at the left, amidst a variety of Chinese valuables, is a ring-tailed lemur from Madagascar.
