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Man and woman seated in a tavern

Maker

(artist)
1610-1690

Title

Man and woman seated in a tavern

Date of Production

1660 - 1669

Medium

black chalk or graphite and grey wash on paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 28.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2198 (MISSING)

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Adelbert Cust, 5th Baron Brownlow, Belton House (1867-1927); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 14 July 1926, lot 41; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952; noted missing February 1989; Henk J. Stokking Gallery, Amsterdam, by 1983 (according to Christie's); Robert Noortman, Maastricht (1946-2007), by 1991 (when exhibited in Antwerp as in his possession); Christie's (Amsterdam), 25 November 1992, lot 546 (as 'A Woman smoking and Peasant drinking by a Barrel in a Tavern', sold for 8,050 guilders); current whereabouts unknown

Exhibition History

David Teniers de Jonge, Schilderijen, Tekeningen, Musée Royale des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, 1991

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

High Life, Low Life: David Teniers the Younger, Rye Art Gallery, 1972 (Apr.-May) ...More

Trésor de l’art flamand du moyen âge au XVIIIme Siècle [Afdeeling van de Oud-Vlaamische Kunst], Antwerp, 1930

Exhibition of paintings: seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish schools, loaned by the Trustees of the National Gallery, and drawings loaned by Sir Robert Witt, C.B.E. and Lady Witt., Hanley Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 29/02/1928-26/05/1928; City of York Museum and Art Gallery, York, 01/06/1928-01/09/1928

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1927 ...Less

Literature

David Teniers de Jonge: Schilderijen. Tekeningen, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1991
p. 329, no. 137
ill. on p. 329

High Life, Low Life: David Teniers the Younger, Rye Art Gallery, April - May 1972
cat. no. 16
as Teniers

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 131 ...More

Mémorial de l’exposition d’art flamand ancien à Anvers, Antwerp, 1930 Paris 1932
cat. no. 477

Exhibition of paintings : seventeenth century dutch and flemish schools, loaned by the Trustees of the National Gallery, and drawings loaned by Sir Robert Witt, C.B.E. and Lady Witt., Hanley Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent and City of York Museum and Art Gallery, York, 1928, 1928

Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: foolscap (according to Christie's 1992 entry).

Inscription: Recto: an unidentified collector's number: "no. 103". Verso: colour notes: "Blau / blau / groen / purper"; an unidentified collector's number: "no 1297".

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