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David Teniers the Younger Antwerp 1610 - 1690 Brussels
Description
- David Teniers the Younger
- an interior of an inn with an amorous couple at a table, and figures smoking near a fireplace in the background, a woman watching from a window above
signed lower left: D. Teniers F.
- oil on copper laid down on board
Provenance
Lord Heytesbury;
With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1898;
M. Rodolphe Kann, Paris, circa 1898 (cat. coll. 1907, cat. no. 29, as dated 1645);
Collection Bromberg, circa 1935 (according to the R.K.D. with larger measurements: 61 by 78 cm.);
Dr. Emden;
Lady Susannah Birch, Beaumont Hall, Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 15 May 1953, lot 14, for 950 Guineas to Cevat;
With Daan Cevat, London, by 1953.
Exhibited
London, The Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, January - March 1886, cat. no. 96;
Paris, Sedelmeyer Gallery, Illustrated Catalogue of 300 paintings by Old Masters…of the Sedelmeyer Gallery, 1898, p. 224, cat. no. 203, reproduced p. 225;
Paris, Rodolphe Kann, Catalogue of the Rodolphe Kann Collection, 1907, p. 30, cat. no. 29, reproduced (all the above as dated 1645);
Colchester, Moot Hall, A selection of pictures from private collections, 2 July 1951 – 14 July 1951, cat. no. 11, reproduced.
Catalogue Note
In the Royal Academy of Arts catalogue of 1886, as well as in the Sedelmeyer and Kann catalogues of 1898 and 1907 (see under Exhibited ), this painting was recorded as dated 1645. A date for the present work around this time seems plausible, comparing it to other works, such as The kitchen interior, signed and dated 1644, in the Mauritshuis, The Hague (inv. no. 260) and the Cardplayers, datable 1644/5, in a private collection (see M. Klinge and D. Lüdke, David Teniers der Jüngere 1610-1690. Alltag und Vernügen in Flandern, Heidelberg 2005, pp. 164/5, cat. no. 36, reproduced).