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Allegory of Winter
Details
DAVID TENIERS II (ANTWERP 1610-1690 BRUSSELS)
Allegory of Winter
oil on panel
8 1/4 x 12 in. (21 x 30. 5 cm.)
Allegory of Winter
oil on panel
8 1/4 x 12 in. (21 x 30. 5 cm.)
Provenance
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Brussels.
Faigneau collection, Brussels.
C.H. Francolet, Brussels; (†), H. Vleminckx, Brussels, 10 September 1764, lot 19, as one of a series of the Four Seasons (800 florins).
James Christie (1730-1803), London; (†) his sale, Christie’s, London, 27 May 1820 (=2nd day), lot 62, as one of a series of the Four Seasons (126 gns. to Bolton).
Alfred Fletcher, Esq., Allerton, Liverpool; (†), Christie’s, London, 23 June 1922, lot 136, as ‘Bassano (After) The Seasons, by D. Teniers—a set of four’, where acquired for 110 gns. by,
Mrs. Mosscockle, Clewer Park, Windsor; (†), Christie’s, Derby House, 26 November 1943, lot 55, as one of a series of the Four Seasons and with erroneous dimensions (260 gns. to Schuber).
with William Hallsborough, Ltd., London.
Private collection, Canada.
Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet, New York, 13 February 1958, lot 15 ($8,000 for three from the series).
Henry A. Rudkin, Southport, CT; Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1964, lot 26, where acquired for £1400 by the following,
with Leonard Koetser, London.
with Gooden & Fox, Ltd., London, where acquired in 1965 by,
Christian B. Peper, Sr.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 26 January 2012, lot 261, where acquired by the present owner.
Faigneau collection, Brussels.
C.H. Francolet, Brussels; (†), H. Vleminckx, Brussels, 10 September 1764, lot 19, as one of a series of the Four Seasons (800 florins).
James Christie (1730-1803), London; (†) his sale, Christie’s, London, 27 May 1820 (=2nd day), lot 62, as one of a series of the Four Seasons (126 gns. to Bolton).
Alfred Fletcher, Esq., Allerton, Liverpool; (†), Christie’s, London, 23 June 1922, lot 136, as ‘Bassano (After) The Seasons, by D. Teniers—a set of four’, where acquired for 110 gns. by,
Mrs. Mosscockle, Clewer Park, Windsor; (†), Christie’s, Derby House, 26 November 1943, lot 55, as one of a series of the Four Seasons and with erroneous dimensions (260 gns. to Schuber).
with William Hallsborough, Ltd., London.
Private collection, Canada.
Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet, New York, 13 February 1958, lot 15 ($8,000 for three from the series).
Henry A. Rudkin, Southport, CT; Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1964, lot 26, where acquired for £1400 by the following,
with Leonard Koetser, London.
with Gooden & Fox, Ltd., London, where acquired in 1965 by,
Christian B. Peper, Sr.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 26 January 2012, lot 261, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
D. Teniers, Theatrum pictorium, Antwerp, 1658, 2nd ed., 1660, no. 165.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, III, London, 1831, p. 293, under no. 121.
‘On Land and water at the Leonard Koetser Gallery’, Connoisseur, CLVIII, 1965, p. 185.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, III, London, 1831, p. 293, under no. 121.
‘On Land and water at the Leonard Koetser Gallery’, Connoisseur, CLVIII, 1965, p. 185.
Exhibited
New York and Maastricht, Noortman & Brod Ltd., Adriaen Brouwer, David Teniers the Younger: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, 7 October-11 December 1982, no. 39 (with Spring).
Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, A Gentleman Collects, 25 October 2002-5 January 2003, unnumbered.
Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, A Gentleman Collects, 25 October 2002-5 January 2003, unnumbered.
Engraved
J. van Troyen, circa 1658.
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