David Teniers the Younger
Antwerp 1610 – 1690 Brussels
A Peasant with a Pipe; A Peasant
Holding a Pasglas, a Pair
Both black chalk on vellum 120 x
85 mm, broad framing lines in gold-
coloured paint
Both signed with monogram, one
upper left, the other upper right
Datable 1630s to early 1640s
Provenance
…; collection Lord John Spencer (1708-46), Althorp;1 his son, John Spencer, 1st Earl
Spencer (1734-83), Althorp; his son, George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834),
Althorp; his sale, London (T. Philipe; Lugt 8019), 10-(16) June 1811 sqq., nos. 744-45 (‘A boor, with a pipe-black chalk highly finished’, ‘A ditto, with a glass-ditto, ditto- ditto N.B.
It is rare to meet with drawings of this master so well finished), £ 0-10s-6d and £ 0-11s-0d; 2 …; collection Charles Sackville Bale (1791-1880), London; his sale, London (Christie, Manson & Woods; Lugt 41193), 9-(10) June 1881 sqq., no. 2462 (‘A Peasant with a Pipe, and a peasant holding a glass-a pair’), £ 14-14s;3 …; sale, John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), London (Sotheby’s), 27 May 1935 sqq., no. 198;…;
collection Fernand Adda (1890-1965), Paris and Cannes; his sale [‘Collection d’un Grand Amateur’], Paris (Palais Galliéra; M. and Ph. Rheims), 29 November 1965 sqq., nos. 88-89;…; private collection, Paris, by 1991;…; private collection, The Netherlands
Exhibited
Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, David Teniers de Jonge:
schilderijen, tekeningen, (catalogue by M. Klinge), pp. 314-15, nos. 123A-B