David Teniers the Younger
Peasants celebrating twelfth night
163547.2 x 69.9 cm
Oil on wood
Signed and dated, lower left on table edge: D. TENIERS F 1635
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 377
Literature
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 37
Provenance
Edward Ladd Betts (died 1695), England
M. Belinarde, 1785
Alfred and Jacques Pereire, Paris, by 1936
Mme. I. P(ereire)
her sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 4 June 1937, nr. 22
Guy Stein. Baron Alex. Gendebien, Brussels, in 1937
consigned c. 1939 for Baron Robert Gendebien by Eric-Emil Lyndhurst, Brussels, to Katz Gallery, Dieren, The Netherlands
probably sold to P. Smit van Gelder, Antwerp
sold to J. Kalb
sold 12 February 1941 to Goudstikker firm, Amsterdam
sold 11 December 1941 to Professor Hoffmann, Munich
Baron Robert Gendebien, Brussels, 1955
Eric-Emil Lyndhurst, Brussels, 1955
with Kunsthandel Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, 1955
sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1963, nr. 42
Mrs. Pethick
Mrs. M. Polak, New York
with Kunsthandel Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, in 1964
Dr. Heinrich Becker, Dortmund, by 1967
with Schaeffer Galleries, New York
purchased 3 February 1972 by NGA
Other works by David Teniers the Younger
The alchemist
The submission of the Sicilian rebels to Antonio Moncada in 1411
The presentation of the Captain General's baton to Antonio Moncada by Queen Bianca, Regent of Sicily, 1410
Village Festival
Allegory of Prudence Triumphing Over Vanity (Allegory of Faith)