FOLLOWER OF DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER | WITCHES PREPARING FOR SABBATH

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February 4, 05:19 PM GMT

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5,000 - 7,000 USD

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FOLLOWER OF DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER

WITCHES PREPARING FOR SABBATH

oil on panel

panel: 19¼ by 14⅝ in.; 48.9 by 37.2 cm.

framed: 24 by 19½ in.; 61 by 49.5 cm.

Private collection, Eastern Europe;

Thence by descent in the family for several generations;

Anonymous sale, New York, Phillips, 8 June 1983, lot 240 (as bears Teniers monogram), where unsold.

This is an 18th century copy after one of the multiple engravings, possibly Jacques Aliamet's from 1755,¹ based on David Teniers's painting in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.²

^1.Paper, 326 by 259 mm. See https://rkd.nl/explore/images/225148

^2. Oil on panel, 28 by 27 cm., inv. no. 197. See https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/David-Teniers/Hexenküche/8A15785A43CF64DE7152E4AF95DCD550/