David Ryckaert III (Antwerp 1612-1661)
Lot 176

David Ryckaert III (Antwerp 1612-1661)

Peasants merry making in a tavern

Closed23 April 2008

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GBP 3,500

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David Ryckaert III (Antwerp 1612-1661)
Peasants merry making in a tavern
oil on canvas
36¾ x 46¾ in. (93.4 x 118.7 cm.)

The Dukes of Mantua and by descent to
Ferdinando Carlo di Gonzaga-Nevers, 10th and last Duke of Mantua (1652-1708).
Giovanni Battista Rota, by whom sold on 12 October 1724 as a pair with lot 177, both called 'Tiniers Olandesi', with other works of art from the collection of the Dukes of Mantua to
Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747).
Bequeathed to his nephew Christian Günther von der Schulenburg, Berlin, and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

The pupil of his father, David Ryckaert II (1586-1642), David III became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1636, and was appointed Dean of the Guild in 1652; his brother-in-law, Gonzales Coques, was his pupil, and the Archduke Leopold William, governor of the Spanish Netherlands, was his major patron. Rijckaert began his career as a landscape painter but soon specialized in genre scenes under the influence of Adriaen Brouwer and David Teniers II.