Peasants dancing outside a Tavern, with a Village Church in the distance
David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1690
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
422 x 629 mm (16 5/8 x 24 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Belgium
Order this imageCollection
Buckland Abbey, Devon
NT 810132
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Peasants dancing dancing outside a Tavern, with a Village Church in the distance by David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690), signed lower right: D. TENIERS FEC.
Provenance
Possibly collection of Miles Hart Davies, 1814; possibly collection of George Watson Taylor, 1823; possibly collection of Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (1774-1848) , 1831; collection of William Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton (1799-1864) by 1854; collection of Mrs E. Ettlinger, 1956 (on loan to York City Art Gallery); Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross; acquired by the National Trust as a gift from the estate of the late Edna, Lady Samuel of Wych Cross (1918-2008), 2010.
Credit line
Buckland Abbey (given from the estate of Edna, Lady Samuel of Wych Cross (1918-2008) to the National Trust in 2010)
Makers and roles
David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690), artist
References
Smith 1829-42 John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, 8 vols and supplement, London, 1829-42, possibly p. 376, no. 445 Waagen 1854-7: Gustav Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 3 vols. (translated by Lady Eastlake) with a supplementary volume: Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854-7, vol. II, 1854,p. 106 David Teniers the Younger, exh. cat. (ed. Margaret Klinge), Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 11 May – 1 September 1991, p. 319 reprd.