Monkeys smoking, drinking and preparing a meal in a kitchen

Details

Abraham Teniers (Antwerp 1629-1670)
Monkeys smoking, drinking and preparing a meal in a kitchen
oil on copper, with later panel additions
9 1/8 x 13 1/8 in. (23.2 x 33.3 cm.), with later additions of 3/8 x ¼ in. (1 x 0.8 cm) on each side

Provenance

with Meffre, Paris, 1865.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13 May 1895, lot 21, as 'David Teniers' (2,050 francs).
Jules van Goidsenhoven; Fievez, Brussels, 20 December 1930, lot 790, as 'David Teniers'.
Dr. C.J.K. van Aalst, Hoevelaken, and by descent to the following,
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 9 November 2010, lot 54, as 'Studio of David Teniers II' (€73,000).

Literature

J.W. von Moltke and W.R. Valentiner, Dutch and Flemish Old Masters in the collection of Dr. C.J.K. van Aalst, Huis te Hoevelaken, Holland, Verona, 1939, p. 38.

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Lot Essay

This lot relates to the picture of 1657 in a private collection, Paris.

The attribution was confirmed by Dr. Margret Klinge in private correspondence with a previous owner.

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