A 'singerie' with monkeys in a guardroom at night

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Studio of David Teniers II (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)
A 'singerie' with monkeys in a guardroom at night
oil on panel
25½ x 41½ in. (64.8 x 105.4 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Teniers was one of the most successful landscape and genre painters of his day, with a flourishing studio to meet the demand of commissions. His humourous paintings of monkeys were particularly popular as parodies of human society, notably the ribald activities of men, the antics of a guardroom at night being one such example.

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