La fête du hameau
David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1690
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1295 x 1676 mm
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd
NT 1420343
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, La fête du hameau, David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690). In celebration of a local village fête two peasants are dancing by cottages on the right with other figures including a bagpiper playing on the right beside a goat on the left.
Provenance
Empress Josephine, Malmaison,1812; purchased by Colonel the Hon. Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai (1800 – 1886); thence by descent to Hugh Napier Douglas Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn of Llangedai (1894 – 1949), who left Penryhn and its estates to his niece, Lady Janet Marcia Rose Pelham (1923 - 1997), who with her husband John Charles Harper, thereupon assumed the name of Douglas Pennant, and in 1951 made over the castle and part of its contents in lieu of death-duties to HM Treasury (from the estate of Hugh, 4th Baron Penrhyn (1894 – 1949), which transferred them to the National Trust; accepted in lieu of tax (estate of Lady Janet Marcia Rose Douglas Pennant (d. 1997) by HM Treasury and allocated to the National Trust in 2004
Credit line
Penrhyn Castle, The Douglas Pennant Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690), artist