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European Art
Artist: Adriaen van de Venne, Dutch, 1589–1662
Peasants Dancing
1655
Oil on panel
60 × 75 cm (23 5/8 × 29 1/2 in.)
Bequest of Dr. Herbert and Monika Schaefer
2020.37.46
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Dutch
Period:
17th century
Classification:
Paintings
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.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.