Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

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Property from a North American Private Collection

David Teniers the Elder

Christ on the road to Calvary

Lot Closed

January 30, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a North American Private Collection

David Teniers the Elder

Antwerp 1582 - 1649

Christ on the road to Calvary


oil on copper

copper: 16 3/4 by 21 in.; 42.6 by 53.4 cm.

framed: 20 3/4 by 25 1/4 in.; 52.7 by 64.1 cm.

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 9 July 2008, lot 139;
There acquired by the present collector. 

Not many works by David Teniers the Elder have come down to us, but he painted landscapes, religious and mythological scenes. He trained his much more successful son, David Teniers the Younger, with whom he collaborated after 1626. Teniers the Elder was active in Rome where he befriended Adam Elsheimer, whose work influenced Teniers, particularly in the composition of his landscapes.Teniers executed an upright Christ on the Road to Calvary, sold New York, Sotheby's, 04 June 2015, lot 61 featuring a more compressed compositional design, albeit with a similar overall structure and figural technique to the present work. 


When last sold (see Provenance), Hans Vlieghe endorsed the attribution to Teniers the Elder, on the basis of photographs. 


1. See Jan de Maere and M. Wabbes, Illustrated Dictionary of 17th-Century Flemish painters, Brussels 1994, text vol., pp. 386-7.