Peasants Dancing Artist: Adriaen van de Venne (Dutch, 1589–1662)

1655

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

23 5/8 × 29 1/2 in. (60 × 75 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Dr. Herbert and Monika Schaefer

Accession Number

2020.37.46

Culture

Dutch

Period

17th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Daniel Franken Dz. (1838–1898), Paris, by 1878. Sale, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, April 22-23, 1980, lot 140. Sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, June 20, 1989, lot 150. [Sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, December 2, 1994, lot 7 (unsold)]. Sale, Sotheby's, London, December 17, 1998, lot 150; sold through Thomas Agnew’s, London, to Dr. Herbert Schaefer (1910 – 2011) and Monika Schaefer (née Winter, died 2019), Malaga, Spain, December 17, 1998 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven., Conn., 1999–2019); bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2019
This work appears on our "Artworks with Nazi-Era Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • Lauren Johannes Bol, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, painter and draughtsman (Doornspijk: Davaco, 1989), 97
  • Annelies Plokker, Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589-1662): de grisailles met spreukbanden (Leuven: Acco, 1984), 182–183, fig. no.71
  • Daniel Franken, Adriaen van de Venne (Amsterdam: C.M. van Gogh, 1878), 55, fig. no.26
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations)

Subject

dancing

Inscriptions

"Losse lompe / satte lust" [loose rags / drunken lust]

Signed

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

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