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David Teniers II Follower, Oil Painting ‘Revellers’, 19th C

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,000.00 EUR Estimated At:1,600.00 - 2,000.00 EUR
David Teniers II Follower, Oil Painting ‘Revellers’, 19th C
Central image motif of this oil painting, which was created in the style of the Flemish painter David Teniers II (1610-1690), are two revellers in a tavern. In front, a man of middle age is sitting at a wooden table. Dressed in a feathered cap, he is looking directly at the viewer. He is holding a lit pipe in his left hand; with his right hand he is grabbing a tall beer jug. On his right is sitting a peasant, who is filling himself a pipe. The scene is rounded off with a humorous drawing with the likeness of a man, which is attached to the wall behind. Above the drawing is a shelf with different vessels standing on it, which adds a still-life-like element to the image. A typical genre scene in the style of the 17th century!



The painting displays traces of wear and age. It was painted on a later parquetted wooden panel. The colour surface is varnished and depicts framing marks, as well as small touch ups, also in the area of the faces, which are invisible with the bare eye. The high-profile stucco frame shows losses of material and touch ups of paint. On the reverse is an old tag with the hand-written annotation ‘David Teniers der jüngere fecit, ca. 1620’. The total dimensions, including the frame, are 36 x 31.5 cm. The wooden panel is 26 x 20.8 cm in size.



David Teniers II (1610-1690)

The Flemish painter David Teniers II (the Younger) came from Antwerp and was taught by his father David Teniers I. (the Elder). Married to the daughter of Jan Brueghel the Elder, his later works show the influence of Peter Paul Rubens and Adriaen Brouwer. In 1633, he became a member of the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp, whose dean he became in 1645. In 1651, he was appointed courtly painter in Brussels. Here, he managed the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm and created the so-called ‘Theatricum Pictorum’ for him in 1660, presumably the first pictured catalogue of a collection of paintings ever. In 1664, Teniers established the Antwerp Academy.

David Teniers II has created an extensive oeuvre, including tavern scenes, kermesses, guard rooms, alchemist and witch kitchens, as well as biblical scenes, such as the frequently executed ‘Temptation of Saint Anthony’. His genre scenes were extremely popular with art collectors of his time. Today, many of his works hang in almost every well-known art gallery, for example, in the Berlin and Dresden Painting Galleries, the Uffizi in Florence, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the Louvre and the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna. (tm)
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