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Lot 59

David Teniers the Younger
(Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)
Figures reading in an interior

5 December 2018, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £40,000 inc. premium

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David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)

Figures reading in an interior
bears signature 'D. TENIERS.FEC' (on table, lower right)
oil on copper
23.2 x 17.2cm (9 1/8 x 6 3/4in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Private Collection, Paris, presumably 18th century
Collection of Thomas Poynder
T.A.M Poynder, Hartham Park, Wiltshire (included in Inventory of 1873), and by descent to his nephew
Sir John Dickson-Poynder, Bt., created Lord Islington and thence by descent through the family until offered by the heirs
Sale, Christie's, London, 11 February 1972, lot 61 (bt. Marin for 4500 gns)
With David M. Koetser, Zurich, July 1972
Acquired by the present owner's father in London in 1972

Exhibited
Bristol, City Art Gallery, on long-term loan


Engraved
Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731-1797) as La Bonne Intelligence (see fig. 1)


We are grateful to Dr. Margret Klinge for confirming the attribution to David Teniers upon inspection of the original and for suggesting a date of the 1650s, when the artist was working in Brussels.

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