Bagpiper in an Inn Artist: David Teniers the Younger (Flemish, 1610–1690)

ca. 1635–45

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

22 × 19 1/8 in. (55.9 × 48.6 cm)

Credit Line

Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund

Accession Number

1966.88

Culture

Flemish

Period

17th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Étienne Martin (Baron de Beurnonville), Paris. With Nathan Galerie (Dr. Fritz Nathan), St. Gallen, Switzerland, by February 1942; sold to Emil Georg Bührle (1890–1956), Zurich, February 21, 1942; sold to Nathan Galerie (Dr. Fritz Nathan and Dr. Peter Nathan), Zurich, 1964; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1966
This work appears on our "Artworks with Nazi-Era Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • Lukas Gloor, Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2021), 260–61, fig. 72
  • Katherine Neilson and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), fig. 25
  • "Supplement," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (February 1967), 82, no. 301
  • Meisterwerke flämischer Malerei. Hundert Gemälde aus der Blütezeit der Malerei in Flandern von Van Eyck bis Rubens (Schaffhausen, Switzerland: Unionsdruckerei, 1955), no. 99
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

Subject

bagpipes wall

Signed

[LR] "D. Teniers F."

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