Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night - Postcard by Teniers, David, II

Genre scene with a man seated in an interior smoking a pipe. On the background a standing man peeing against a wall. Signed on the bottom: 'David Teniers Pinx / P. Chenu Sculp.'; titled: 'LE FUMEUR FLAMAND / Gravé d'aprés l'Original de David Teniers de meme grandeur / qui est dans le Cabinet de M.r le Comte de Cence'; address at the bottom: 'A Paris ches l'Auteur rue de la Harpe á cote du Passage des Jacobins vis á vis le Caffé de Condé'; ca. 1776. Engraving and etching on paper, trimmed to plate mark and mounted on laid paper; total: 338 x 234; some foxing on the mount otherwise in good condition.

In an interior of an inn a peasant man seated at a table and smoking a pipe while holding a glass. To the right a jug is resting on the table. Behind the man a woma is holding a glass. Signed on the bottom: 'D. Teniers Pinx. Adr Possemiers ex. A gand' l Engraving on paper, with small margins; platemark: 197 x 135 mm; total 210 x 148 mm; small damage on the wrist of the man. Pasted on larger sheet on the upper margin. PG013

A man pulling at a band-aid on his skin, symbolizing the sense of touch. He is sitting beside a small table with a bottle and a tiny recipient. He wears a hat with a pipe in its fold.Monogrammed on the top left, in reverse, DT F.[NL] Een man trekt een pleister van zijn rechterhand. Personificatie van het voelen, de zintuigen. In de hoekrand een pijp door een lus. Antieke prent naar David Teniers. Very fine etching trimmed on or within plate mark; total: 110 x 92 mm; some traces of handling; a small hole at center, mounted on fine paper passepartout. Hollstein 8, copy, described in Dutuit as original (nr. 41).

London: John Boydell, 1777. Engraving, coloured by hand, by J.B. Michel. (Expert repair to upper margin just touching image area). A lively scene from the Flemish master of the interior genre picture. Born in Antwerp, David Teniers was the son of David Teniers I. He became a master of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1632-3 after an apprenticeship to his father, with whom he also collaborated. In 1637 he married Anna, the daughter and heiress of Jan Breughel I. From the outset Teniers the younger was an extremely productive painter, thanks to his good relationship with Antwerp art dealers. During the 1630s he produced small-format religious scenes on commission for Chrysostoom van Immerseel, who supplied the Spanish market. However, it was Teniers's genre pieces that were greatly prized by the Antwerp dealers and made him famous. Teniers quickly became one of Antwerp's pace-setting and most successful painters, which probably accounts for his assumption of functions that carried a degree of social… Read More