David Teniers the Younger

Provenance

Possibly identical to a picture which the artist is reputed to have presented in 1647 to Archduke LeopoldWilhelm of Austria (1614-1662), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands
Anna Theresia van Halen (died 1749), Antwerp
her sale, Antwerp, 19 August 1749, nr. 7
Jacques Clémens (1713-1779), Canon of St Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, almost certainly acquired at the above sale
his sale, Maison Mortuaire, Ghent, Philippe Gimblet and brothers, 21 June 1779 and the following days, nr. 269, where acquired by van den Berghe1
anonymous sale, J.-B. Lebrun, Paris, May 1803, nr. 4
Baron Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773-1847), Paris (recorded in his possession in 1824 when housed at no. 3 rue Coq-Héron; probably purchased by him in the Lebrun sale in 1803)
by inheritance to his brother the banker François-Marie Delessert (1780-1868), Paris,
his sale, 15-18 March, 1869, Paris, nr. 87, where bought for 159,000 Francs by the following
Count Henri Greffulhe (1815-1879), French politician and member of the Société d'Encouragement
by inheritance to his brother the banker and politician and member of the Senate Count Louis-Charles Greffulhe (1814-1888)
his son Count Henri Greffulhe (1848-1932)
his daughter Countess Èlaine Greffulhe (1882-1958) who married Count Armand de Gramont (1879-1962), and thence by descent until 2017
with Agnews, London, by 2022

Other works by David Teniers the Younger

Saint Hieronymus
c. 1635/40

Salome with the head of Saint John the Baptist

Interior with Smokers

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in an open landscape

Bleeching Fields