EARLY 18TH CENTURY, AFTER ALEXANDRE VAN BREDAEL,

Teniers scenes are named after David II (1610 - 1690) and David III (1638 - 1685) Tenier's, both painters of genre scenes. Although none of the multitude of tapestries known as Teniers tapestries that were woven in the numerous weaving centers can be linked to any of their specific designs, documents of the very early 18th century already refer to these tapestries as such. It is usually difficult to link specific designers to Teniers subjects, however correspondences between the merchant Pieter van Verrren and the figure painter Alexandre van Bredael (1663 - 1720) of 1700 reveal him as the designer of this particular subject. It is possible that the landscapes may have been drawn by Pieter Spierinckx, particularly since such a collaboration between Bredael and Spierinckx on Teniers tapestries is mentioned in documents of 1707 (I. de Meûter, M. Vanwelden, Tapisseries d'Audenarde du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, Tielt, 1999, p. 235).