David Teniers the Younger

Possibly Sir Luke Schaub (1690–1758) (according to the Bessborough catalogue below);
Possibly Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (1758–1844), his sale, London, Christie's, 2nd Day's sale, 6 February 1801, lot 90 for £94.10s.: 'A large and Capital landscape, a view of the Alps with Gypsies and Peasants, expressed with the truth of Nature; finely coloured and touched with a spirited and lively pencil...';
Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough (1809–62), by 1835;
A. H. Miles, London, 1911;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 9 December 1911, lot 102, £50.8s. to Mellish;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 3 February 1912, lot 35, £22.10s. to Mathews;
With Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1914;
Private Collection, Sweden;
Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowskis, 24 April 1974, lot 188;
There acquired by the present owners.

London, British Institution, 1835, no. 165 ('A Landscape with gypsies').

J. de Maere and M. Wabbes, Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters, 3 vols., Brussels 1994, vol. III, reproduced plate 1153.

The canvas has an old relining. As a result the paint surface has been flattened. The paint surface is secure, stable and clean. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals and even varnish and some localised retouching to the rocks and bridge at lower left, as well as some very small very few scattered retouchings to the seated figure. Overall the work is in very good condition. The painting is offered in a simple wood carved frame in good condition.
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The attribution to David Teniers has been confirmed by Frau Dr. Margret Klinge following inspection of the original in 1989. Although the Bessborough sale catalogue of 1801 states that the picture came 'out of the collection of Sir Luke Schaub', it is not among the paintings sold from his Estate in London in 1758.