Peasants Making Music David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690)

Peasants Making Music

David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690)

c. 1650

David Teniers the Younger, so called to differentiate him from his notably less talented and infinitely less prolific painter father, was one of the most successful Dutch painters of his time, above all for low-life genre scenes of precisely this type, but also for so-called gallery pictures, in which he accurately recorded the holdings of leading collectors. One such was his patron Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the governor of the southern Netherlands, to whom the present panel belonged before passing into the hands of Prince Karl Eusebius I von Liechtenstein, who in his turn owned over a dozen paintings by David Teniers the Younger.
No doubt aristocratic patrons enjoyed Teniers’s rose-tinted visions of the cheerful carryings-on of peasants, in this case making music in a humble but far from squalid interior, but what they must have understood set him apart from so many of his contemporaries who peddled similar subject matter was the quality of his painting. The colour scheme of the present work is deliberately confined to neutral tones, but the evocation of light flooding through the deep-set window to the left, and indeed of the contrastingly murky darkness of the doorway over to the right from which a bespectacled old crone half-emerges, is wonderfully convincing. What is more, the range of expressions on the various faces affectionately captured only adds to the very possibly wholly illusory sense that we are prying into an authentic slice of life.

Material/technique: oil on panel

Measurements: 37.2 × 27.6 cm

Acquisition: acquired in 1676 by Prince Karl Eusebius I von Liechtenstein

Artists/makers/authors: David Teniers the Younger

Inventory number: GE 525

Signature/inscriptions content only available in German: Siegel: rückseitig Doppeladlersiegel mit W und Jahreszahl 1656, rückseitig F.-L. Vormundschaftssiegel von 1733 in Schwarz

Provenance: 1656 in the possession of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria; acquired in 1656 by Prince Karl Eusebius von Liechenstein on 3 February 1676 from the art dealer Marcus Forchondt, Antwerp ("1 Luytspel van Davit Tenniers").

Iconography: Peasant scene , Musician

Ausst.-Kat. David Teniers the Younger. Paintings – Drawings, Margret Klinge (Hg.), erschienen Ghent 1991, S. 236, Nr. 81, Farbabb. S. 237, Farbdetail S. 240

Richard D. Leppert, David Teniers the Younger and the Image of Music, Antwerpen 1978, S. 87f., Abb. 17

Unbekannter Verfasser, Gemäldeinventar aus dem Nachlass Fürst Johann Adam Andreas I. von Liechtenstein, Manuskript verfasst nach 1712, Nr. 523

Vincenzio Fanti, Descrizzione completa di tutto ciò che ritrovasi nella galleria di pittura e scultura di Sua Altezza Giuseppe Wenceslao del S.R.I. Principe Regnante della casa di Lichtenstein, Wien 1767, S. 46, Kat. 240

Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Description des Tableaux, et des Piéces de Sculpture, que renferme la Gallerie de son Altesse François Joseph Chef et Prince Regnant de la Maison de Liechtenstein, Vienne 1780, S. 101-102, Kat. 292

Johann Dallinger von Dalling d. Ä., Catalogus, Manuskript verfasst 1805–1807, S. Manuskript, Kat. 617

J. Smith, A Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemisch and French painters, Bd. 3, Bd. Bd. 3, London 1831, Kat. 56

G. Parthey, Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichnis der in Deutschland vorhandenen Oelbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen, Bd. Bd. II, Berlin 1864, S. 618, Kat. 146

Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien, Wien 1866, S. 289

Jacob von Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Wien 1873 , S. 90, Kat. 780

Jacob von Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Wien 1885, S. 71, Kat. 525

W. Suida, Die Gemäldegalerie der K.K. Akademie der bildenden Künste. Die Sammlungen Liechtenstein, Czernin, Harrach und Schönborn-Buchheim, Stuttgart 1890, S. 108

Victor Fleischer, Fürst Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein als Bauherr und Kunstsammler (1611–1684), Wien 1910, S. 49

H. Sommer, Die Laute, Berlin 1920, Kat. 64

J. Denucé, Kunstausfuhr Antwerpens im 17. Jahrhundert. Die Firma Forchoudt, Antwerpen 1931, S. 142 u. 180

Adolf Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien, 3. Aufl., Wien 1931, S. 108, Kat. 525

Ausst.-Kat. Flämische Malerei im 17. Jahrhundert. Ausstellung aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein, Gustav Wilhelm, erschienen Vaduz 1955, S. 22, Kat. 525

Reinhold Baumstark, Meisterwerke der Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein. Gemälde, Zürich–München 1980, S. 161–162, Kat.-Nr. 70, Tafel 70

Walter Liedtke, Ausst.-Kat. Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections, New York 1985, S. 302-303, Kat. 193

Johann Kräftner, Andrea Stockhammer, Liechtenstein Museum Wien. Le Collezioni, München 2004, S. 421, Abb. S. 401, Kat. X.19

Johann Kräftner, Andrea Stockhammer, Liechtenstein Museum Vienna. The Collections, Johann Kräftner (Hg.), München–Berlin–London–New York 2004, S. 421, Abb. S. 401, Kat. X.19

Johann Kräftner, Andrea Stockhammer, Liechtenstein Museum Wien. Die Sammlungen, Johann Kräftner (Hg.), München–Berlin–London–New York 2004, S. 421, Abb. S. 401, Kat. X.19

Herbert Haupt, Fürst Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein 1611–1684. Erbe und Bewahrer in schwerer Zeit, Johann Kräftner (Hg.), München–Berlin–London–New York 2007, S. 131, Abb. 134

Ausst.-Kat. Rubens, Van Dyck and the Flemish School of Painting. Masterpieces from the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein (Book Series for the National Museum of China International Exchange), Lu Zhangshen (Hg.), National Museum of China, Beijing 5.11.2013–15.2.2014, erschienen Beijing 2013, S. 173, 177, Abb. 177, Kat. 70

Ausst.-Kat. Rubens, Van Dyck and the Flemish School of Painting. Masterpieces from the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Shi Dawei (Hg.), China Art Museum, Shanghai 12.3.2014–2.6.2014, erschienen Shanghai 2014, S. 257, S. 263, Kat.-Nr. 70

Ausst.-Kat. Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens... Meisterwerke der Flämischen Malerei aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von und zu Liechtenstein, Staatliches Museum für Bildende Künste A. S. Puschkin, Moskau 19.6.2014–19.10.2014, erschienen Wien–Moskau 2014, S. 298-301, Abb. 299, Kat. 52

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