page_title: Jan van de Venne
section_title: Rediscovery and identification
hierarchical_section_title: Jan van de Venne / Rediscovery and identification
context_page_description: Jan van de Venne or Jan van der Venne, also known as Pseudo van de Venne, was a Flemish painter of genre, religious scenes, and cabinets who was court painter to the governors of the Southern Netherlands.
  Many of his works depict "low-life" genre scenes of tooth-pullers, card-players and hurdy-gurdy players, tronies and expressive religious scenes.
context_section_description: Works by Jan van de Venne were formerly attributed to an artist referred to as ‘Pseudo-Van de Venne’.  This Pseudo-Van de Venne was erroneously believed to be the brother, also called Jan, of the better known Dutch painter Adriaen van de Venne. Adriaen's brother Jan, however, died in Middelburg in 1625.
  Art historian Jacques Foucart from the Louvre corrected the wrong attribution in an article published in 1978.   Foucart identified Pseudo-Van de Venne with another Jan van de Venne whom he identified as a Flemish artist.   This identification of ‘Pseudo-Van de Venne’ with Jan van de Venne, an artist believed to have been born in Mechelen c. 1600, has since gained wide acceptance.
caption: The fortune teller
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