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Lot Essay
A smaller tapestry of the same subject is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (E.A. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, p. 229) and is signed by Urban (d. 1747) and Daniel (d. 1728) Leyniers. These two weavers are known to have signed a collaboration contract with Hendrik Reydams the younger (d. 1719) in 1712. This association only fully broke up one year after Hendrik's death. It is probable that this tapestry was woven by the former two weavers, as the designs for these Teniers tapestries usually were held by one workshop only while other weavers could have the same subject, albeit with variations in the detail.
David Teniers the younger (d. 1690) is usually named the author of this type of tapestry, but only few figures or settings can ever be related to his works. In this instance only the man turning his back appears in a painting Village Festival in the Hermitage and the woman to the right of the dancing group in reverse, in a painting in the Brussels Royal Museum. Other designers, including Ignaz d'Hondt, Jan van Orley, Augustin Coppens and Jakob van Helmont are mentioned as having supplied designs for Teniers tapestries to the Leyniers-Reydams association.
This enlarged composition is also included in a set owned by the Earl of Wemyss and March at Stanway, Gloucestershire, while a further, formerly in the collection of Count d'Outremont de Wegimont, was sold at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4-5 April 1935, lot 42, and then in the Keulen collection from which it was sold at Lempertz Gallery, Cologne, 24 November 1957, lot 1465.
David Teniers the younger (d. 1690) is usually named the author of this type of tapestry, but only few figures or settings can ever be related to his works. In this instance only the man turning his back appears in a painting Village Festival in the Hermitage and the woman to the right of the dancing group in reverse, in a painting in the Brussels Royal Museum. Other designers, including Ignaz d'Hondt, Jan van Orley, Augustin Coppens and Jakob van Helmont are mentioned as having supplied designs for Teniers tapestries to the Leyniers-Reydams association.
This enlarged composition is also included in a set owned by the Earl of Wemyss and March at Stanway, Gloucestershire, while a further, formerly in the collection of Count d'Outremont de Wegimont, was sold at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4-5 April 1935, lot 42, and then in the Keulen collection from which it was sold at Lempertz Gallery, Cologne, 24 November 1957, lot 1465.