A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY

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

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A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY
Mid-18th Century, by Daniel III Leyniers, after David Teniers the younger
Woven in wools and silks, depicting The Vegetable Market, with a group of women flanking a quantity of vegetables including cabbages, beetroot, artichokes and asparagus, with a canopied terraced building to the left and a further building to the right with a group of peasants,signed on the right-hand side 'D. L.'with inventory label numbered '3696' to the back, minor areas of reweaving and patching, the top turned over by 4 in. (10 cm.), conceived without border
9 ft. 9 in. x 5 ft. 10 in. (297 cm. x 178 cm.)

來源

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

出版

K. Asplund ed., Collection de Peintures et de Sculptures appartenant M. le Consul Gnral et Madame Carl Bergsten, Stockholm, 1943, cat. 67.
H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, p. 30.

拍品專文

A tapestry of identical subject but of very slightly wider proportions and including a young girl holding baskets of fruit to the right of the field, by Frans van der Borght, is at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh (M. Swain, Tapestries and Textiles at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, London, 1988, p. 42, fig. 11c). A wider version including an obelisk fountain by Urban and Daniel II Leyniers is illustrated in H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 29, while another was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 30 October 1997, lot 221.