Dancers at a Village Inn

Artist David Teniers the Younger and Workshop (?) Flemish, 1610–1690

Datecirca 1660s

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions65 3/4 x 94 7/8 in. (167 x 241 cm)
Frame: 78 1/2 x 107 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (199.4 x 273.7 x 12.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.115

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ProvenanceCreated Brussels, Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1660s. Francis Rawdon-Hastings (1754–1826), 1st Marquess of Hastings, by 1820; [his sale, John Robins, Donington Park, Leicestershire, England, March 1820, no. 207, as Fête du Village (Village Festival), by Teniers]; [1] probably by descent within the family, Donington Park; probably Henry Rawdon-Hastings (1842- 1868), 4th Marquess of Hastings; [probably his sale, Phillips, London, February 25, 1869]. [2] Possibly Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo (1851–1927), London. Eileen A. Craufurd; [Sotheby’s, London, November 29, 1950, no. 152]; sold to Egmont; [David M. Koetser Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] According to the Getty Provenance Index and the single surviving, annotated copy of the catalogue, the sale appears to have been cancelled and most of the works remained in the Hastings collection for several decades.
[2] Confirmation that the work stayed in the Hastings family until 1869 is pending.
Published ReferencesJohn Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, Vol. 3 (London: Smith and Son, 1831), no. 648, as A Village Fete.

“Old master drawings; old master paintings” (auction catalogue) (London: Sotheby’s, November 29, 1950), lot 152, as A Village Fete Near Antwerp.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 139.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 140.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 75, illus. (color) 360.
Exhibition HistoryRoanoke, VA, Taubman Museum of Art, "Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt's Etchings from the John Villarino Collection," November 20, 2009-February 7, 2010.
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