A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY

MID-18TH CENTURY, BY DAANIEL III LEYNIERS, AFTER DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER

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A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY
Mid-18th Century, by Daaniel III Leyniers, after David Teniers the younger
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Sportsmen Resting, with a group of peasants and hunting men drinking and smoking around a barrel within a forest landscape with a house to the left-hand side and further hunting men and sheep, in the distance with a village in the landscape, signed 'D. L.' in the right lower angle and with an iventory label numbered '3695' to the back, conceived without border
10 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 2 in. (312 cm. x 188 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased by Consul General Karl Bergsten, (d.1953) from Bernheimer, Munich, in 1917.

Literature

K. Asplund ed., Collection de Peintures et de Sculptures appartenant M. le Consul Gnral et Madame Carl Bergsten, Stockholm, 1943, cat. 69.
H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, p. 30.

Lot Essay

A very similar version, but with the main building to the right of the image, by Urban and Daniel II Leyniers is illustrated in H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 27, while a further, by the same makers, is illustrated in D. Boccara, Les Belles Heures de la Tapisserie, Zug, 1971, p. 171.

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