Poppy Harvey-Jones
Head of Sale
Lot 34
David Teniers the Younger(Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)Villagers merry-making
9 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £47,500 inc. premium
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David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)
Villagers merry-making
signed 'D. TENIERS: FEC' (lower right)
oil on panel
24.4 x 35.2cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8in).
signed 'D. TENIERS: FEC' (lower right)
oil on panel
24.4 x 35.2cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8in).
Footnotes
Provenance
M. Selle, 1761
Dowager Lady Stuart
Her sale, Christie's, London, 15 May 1841, lot 67 (bt. Chaplin, 215 gns.)
Sale, Christie's, London, 16 February 1861, lot 112
Alfred de Rothschild
Baron Koenigswarter, Vienna
Sale, Schulte, Berlin, 20 November 1906, lot 89
Sale, Christie's, New York, 18 June 1982, lot 95
With Noortman & Brod, London, where purchased by the present owner's aunt
Literature
J. A. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London, 1831, vol. III, p. 287, no. 94
J. A. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London, 1842, vol. IX (supplement), p. 470, no. 206
C. Davis, A description of the works of art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, London, 1884, vol. 1, no. 31
Exhibited
New York, Noortman & Brod, Adriaen Brouwer & David Teniers the Young, A loan exhibition of paintings, October 1982, no. 55
Margret Klinge confirmed the attribution to David Teniers the Younger for the exhibition in 1982, and dated the work to the early 1670s.
