The Gamesters (An Interior with Peasants gambling around a Table in an Inn)
David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1690
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
457 x 584 mm (18 x 23 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 773376
Summary
Oil painting on panel, The Gamesters by David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690), signed, lower right: 'D. TENIERS F'. An interior with peasants gambling around a table. In an 18th-century carved wood frame. A copy of slightly smaller dimensions was sold at Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1980, lot 34.
Provenance
Francis Child; recorded at Osterley Park in 1782 as in the Breakfast Room; and at Middleton Park in 1915; on loan from the Earldom of Jersey Trust.
Credit line
Osterley Park, The Jersey Collection
Makers and roles
David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690), artist