Property from a Rothschild Family Collection, formerly on loan to Waddesdon Manor
David Teniers the Younger
Village landscape with herdsmen, a milkmaid, cattle, sheep and a dog, a city beyond
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80,000 - 120,000 GBP
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Property from a Rothschild Family Collection, formerly on loan to Waddesdon Manor
David Teniers the Younger
Antwerp 1610–1690 Brussels
Village landscape with herdsmen, a milkmaid, cattle, sheep and a dog, a city beyond
signed lower left, on a rock: D · TENIERS · F
oil on canvas
unframed: 81.8 x 119.4 cm.; 32¼ x 47 in.
framed: 89 x 124.2 cm.; 35 x 48⅞ in.
Louis-Gabriel Peilhon, Conseiller-Secrétaire du Roi (1700–1762), Paris;
His posthumous sale, Paris, on the premises at Peilhon's residence, rue Neuve des-Petits-Champs, 16 May 1763, lot 29, to Remy, for 1,305 livres;
Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808–1879), 148 Piccadilly, London, by c. 1850–51;
By descent to his son, Nathaniel Mayer, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840–1915), 148 Piccadilly, London;
By descent to his grandson, Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910–1990), 148 Piccadilly, London;
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Birmingham, Birmingham Art Gallery, on loan, by March 1950.
J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, London 1831, vol. III, p. 294, no. 124;
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of art in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. II, p. 129 ('carefully carried out in the most delicate silvery tones, and in excellent preservation');
A descriptive catalogue of pictures at Piccadilly & Gunnersbury, MS, undated, p. 59;
J. Knight, H. Frank and W. Rutley, Lord Rothschild; deceased inventory of 148 Piccadilly, MS, 1915, p. 56, as hanging in the Ball Room;
Sotheby's inventory of the property of Lord Rothschild, MS, 1950, p. 82c, located at the Birmingham Art Gallery.
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