LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on copper

Measurements:

27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (height) by 34.49 in. (87.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated lower left: DAVID · TENIERS · FEC · / 1651

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, . 17th Century Art in Europe, 3 January - 12 March 1938, no. 112 (lent by Lionel de Rothschild); Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, 19 December 1964 - 24 January 1965; Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 6 February - 14 March 1965, De Schilder in zijn Wereld: van Jan Van Eyck tot Van Gogh en Ensor, no . 110; Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, David Teniers der Jüngere 1610-1690. Alltag und Vergnügen in Flandern, 5 November 2005 - 19 February 2006, no. 85 (lent by the present owner

Literature:

J. Smith, . A Catalogue Raisonné.., vol. III, London 1831, p. 382, cat. no. 469 ('This picture possesses all the attractive qualities peculiar to the master - freedom and lightness of penciling, a sweet and silvery tone of colouring, and a composition of peculier interest and beauty'); C. Davis, A description of the works of art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, vol. I, London 1884, no. 29, as at Seamore Place; W. Bode, Rembrandt und seine Zeitgenossen, Leipzig 1923, p. 429, reproduced; . An illustrated souvenir of the exhibition of 17th century art in Europe at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, London 1938, reproduced p. 29; F. Boucher, Histoire du costume en Occident de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Paris 1965, reproduced p. 259, fig. 576; R.D. Leppert, The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century, Munich 1977, vol. II, cat. no. 669, reproduced plate XXXII; R.D. Leppert, 'David Teniers the Younger and the image of music', in Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 1978, p. 115, reproduced fig. 36; H. Vlieghe, Rubens portraits of identified sitters painted in Antwerp. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Part XIX, London 1987, vol. II, p. 167, under cat. no. 139; M.E. Wieseman, 'The art of 'Conversatie': Genre portraiture in the Southern Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century', in P.C. Sutton (ed.), The Age of Rubens, exh. cat., Boston 1993, pp. 64 and 190, reproduced p. 189, fig. 6; J.-P. Meulemeester, Portraits de famille dans quelque tableaux de David Teniers II, privately printed, Brussels 1999, vol. I, pp. 12 and 22 (as dated '1657' and entitled 'The Second Marriage of David Teniers'); M. Klinge, 'Porträtdarstellungen auf die Terrasse, im Hof und Garten..', in U. Härtung (ed.), Gärten und Höfe der Rubenszeit im Spiegel der Malerfamilie Brueghel und der Künstler um Peter Paul Rubens, exhibition catalogue, Hamm, Mainz and Munich 2000, p. 126, reproduced fig. 6; D. Lüdke, in M. Klinge and D. Lüdke, David Teniers der Jüngere 1610-1690. Alltag und Vergnügen in Flandern, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart and Heidelberg 2005, pp. 268-71, cat. no. 85, reproduced p. 269

Provenance:

Gilbert Paignon Dijonval (1708-92), acquired in 1731 (according to the 1821 sale catalogue); By descent (' n'est jamais sorti di son cabinet ') to his grandson, Charles-Gilbert, Vicomte Morel de Vindé (1759-1842); His sale, Paris, Paillet, 17 December 1821, lot 106, where bought en bloc by William Buchanan; From whom presumably acquired shortly afterwards by . Thomas Emmerson, London, and presumably sold by him to . George (or John) Lucy, Charlecote Park, by 1831; From whom acquired by Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879), 1834; Thence by inheritance to Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918), by 1884; By whom given to Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1947); Thence by descent to Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942); Thence by inheritance to Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) (lent by him to a Mr. Bevington, according to a label affixed to the reverse); By whom sold to David Carritt Ltd., 1958; Private collection, London; Whence sold ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Sotheby's, 3 December 1997, lot 78, where acquired by the present owner