David Teniers
1610-1690
Peasants Dancing and Feasting
7 1/16 x 16 1/16 inches (179 x 408 mm)
Pen and brown ink (initially in left half) on paper; continued later in graphite by Teniers.
I, 125
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: countermark with number 4 above letter "B".
Teniers revised and continued the composition previously set down on the left-two thirds of the sheet by an unidentified follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Teniers revised and continued the composition previously set down on the left-two thirds of the sheet by an unidentified follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in graphite; at upper left edge, "940-5-83"; at lower left "2073".
Associated names
Bruegel, Jan, 1568-1625, Follower of, Formerly attributed to.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 160, no. 334 repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 125, repr. ("Old Breughel and Teniers").
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 125, repr. ("Old Breughel and Teniers").
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