David Teniers II (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)

A peasant wedding

Details

David Teniers II (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)
A peasant wedding
inscribed 'jonker'
graphite, graphite framing lines
7 3/8 x 11½ in. (18.6 x 29.2 cm.)

Provenance

possibly Anonymous sale; A.J. Van Huffel, Utrecht, 22-24 Maart 1932, lot number unknown; where purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena for 15 guilders (Inventory book: '1139. t. Teniers').

Literature

M.D. Padrón, El Siglo de Rubens en el Museuo del Prado, Madrid, 1995, II, p. 1352, under no. 1786, illustrated.
M. Klinge, 'David Teniers der Jüngere als Zeichner: Die Antwerpener Schaffenszeit (1633-1651)', Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 1997, p. 253, no. 53, illustated p. 176, fig. 53.

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 129, pl. 113 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruegel: Une dynastie de peintres, 1980, no. 245.
Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum, David Teniers the Younger: Paintings. Drawings, 1991, no. 118, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

A rare compositional study, this is for The Village Wedding, dated 1647, in the Prado, Madrid (Antwerp, 1991, op. cit., fig. 118a, p. 310; Fig. 1).

Fig. 1. David Teniers, A peasant wedding, Madrid, Museo del Prado.

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