Live Auction 3052The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part II. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from 1500-1900
David Teniers II (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)
Lot 158

David Teniers II (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)

A peasant wedding

Closed10 December 2014

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David Teniers II (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)
A peasant wedding
inscribed 'jonker'
graphite, graphite framing lines
7 3/8 x 11½ in. (18.6 x 29.2 cm.)

possibly Anonymous sale; A.J. Van Huffel, Utrecht, 22-24 Maart 1932, lot number unknown; where purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena for 15 guilders (Inventory book: '1139. t. Teniers').

Specialist note

A rare compositional study, this is for The Village Wedding, dated 1647, in the Prado, Madrid (Antwerp, 1991, op. cit., fig. 118a, p. 310; Fig. 1).


Fig. 1. David Teniers, A peasant wedding, Madrid, Museo del Prado.