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A Flemish tapestry depicting 'The Vegetable Market', woven in the workshop of Urbanus (1674-1747) and Daniel II Leyniers (1669-1728 ), after designs by David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) second quarter 18th century, Brussels
Description
- wool
- height 137 in., width 210 1/2 in.
- 348 cm, 535 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Quito, acquired from the above
Thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
The tapestries generally known as 'Teniers' tapestries, depicting pastoral and genre scenes of peasant life after the paintings of the artist David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), were immensely popular in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While the majority of the 'Teniers' tapestries were woven in Brussels, other pieces were woven in Lille, Oudenaarde, Antwerp, Beauvais, Aubusson, Madrid and London. Although very few compositions relate directly to actual paintings of Teniers, a core group of subjects after his designs were the most popularly woven, and included `The Fish Quay', `Return from the Harvest', `Gipsy Fortune Teller', `Sportsmen Resting', 'The Village FĂȘte' (or `The Kermesse'), and the scene shown in the present tapestry, `The Vegetable Market'.
RELATED LITERATURE
H. C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, Oxford, 1932, pl. 30