# Johanna and the Jewish Merchants

- By: Cornelis Troost (Amsterdam, 1696–1750)
- Date: 1741
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 68.5 cm x width 86 cm
- Credit line: Gift of Mr and Mrs Leopold Siemens-Ruyter, Blaricum
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4209--da7933981ba111f0edc72f4013737a5c)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/tVKnn/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.