David Teniers the Younger

With De Jonckheere Gallery, Paris;
From whom acquired by the present owner in 1999.

This pair of panel paintings are both on single pieces of oak which are flat, stable, and uncradled. Both pictures are in healthy condition and could certainly be hung in their current state. Small scattered retouches are visible under uv in the sky in both paintings, which is typical for landscapes of this period, and these have been very expertly applied in small single brush strokes and are not visible to the naked eye. The left edge of the panel with bowlers has restoration, likely due to old frame abrasion. The figures themselves are in very healthy condition. Both paintings are in carved ebonized frames.
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These lively cabinet size panels are likely a collaborative effort between the landscape specialist Lucas van Uden and David Teniers the Younger. Van Uden and Teniers collaborated on a number of occasions, as was the tradition in Flanders, especiallly Antwerp, throughout most of the seventeenth century. The artists worked on cabinet size panels such as in these works, but also on a much larger scale, as can be seen in their Peasants merry-making before a Country House (National Gallery, London, inv. NG5866).

We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, for confirming the attribution to Teniers and van Uden following first hand inspection of the original.