Circle of David Teniers II (1610-1690)

Boors playing ringball by an inn in a landscape

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Circle of David Teniers II (1610-1690)
Boors playing ringball by an inn in a landscape
with signature lower right on the barrel DT (linked)
oil on canvas
30.9 x 43.3 cm
in a Louis XIV carved and gilded frame, the foliate corners with scallop shells flanked by scrolling foliage and tondrils running to stylised foliate centres with a scallop shell at the top centre, ogee sight edge with running foliage on a hatched ground

Lot Essay

As pointed out by J. Pluis, Kinderspelen op tegels, 1979, p.98, the game depicted is called beugelen or klossen. It was already played in the late fifteenth century, but lost it's popularity around 1800. The game was also depicted by Adriaen Brouwer in his picture in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (David Teniers de Jonge, exh. cat., Antwerp, 1991, p.62, with ill.).

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