LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

51.18 in. (130.00 cm.) (height) by 90.55 in. (230.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated '·DAVID TENIER INVENTOR ET FECIT·1636·' (lower centre); the reverse stamped with the coat-of-arms of the city of Antwerp

Exhibited:

Tokyo, Tobu Museum of Art, The World of Bruegel: the Coppée Collection and Eleven International Museums , 28 March-25 June 1995, no. F27

Literature:

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters , London, 1831, III, p. 276, no. 54. E. Duverger and H. Vlieghe, David Teniers der Ältere: Ein vergessener flämischer nachfolger Adam Elsheimers , Utrecht, 1971, pp. 46 and 76, fig. 36. F. Russell, ‘Canaletto and Joli at Chesterfield House’, The Burlington Magazine , CXL, no. 1025, August 1988, p. 629, in the Dining Room, ‘The Parting of Abraham and Lot by Teniers’. S. Leclercq , et al ., La Collection Coppée, Brussels, 1991, p. 117

Provenance:

de Verrue (1670-1736); her sale (†), Paris, 27 March 1737 [=1st day], lot 45, as ‘Un grand Tableau de Teniers representant l’histoire de Jacob’ (1,215 francs). Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield (1755-1815), Chesterfield House, Mayfair, London, where recorded in his inventory of 1815 (PRO C112/186), and by descent to, George Stanhope, 7th Earl of Chesterfield (1831-1871), and by inheritance to his mother, Anne Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Chesterfield (1802–1885); (†) Christie’s, London, 31 May 1918, lot 74, as ‘D. Teniers and L. van Uden, Abraham and Lot Dividing their Flocks ’ (100 gns. to Cohen). Lambiotte collection; Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, 12 March 1927, lot 70, when acquired by Baron Evence III Coppee (1882-1945), Brussels, Belgium, and by descent to the present owner