Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Property from the Schminck Collection – Centuries of Collecting Arts & Objects
David Teniers the Younger
A grand palace kitchen interior, with a falconer returning from a hunt
Auction Closed
December 6, 06:47 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from the Schminck Collection – Centuries of Collecting Arts & Objects
David Teniers the Younger
Antwerp 1610 - 1690 Brussels
A grand palace kitchen interior, with a falconer returning from a hunt
signed lower right: D·TENIERS·FEC.
indistinctly dated on the sheet of paper above the fireplace: 1674
oil on canvas
unframed: 174 x 162.2 cm.; 68 ½ x 63 ⅞ in.
framed: 208.9 x 192.1 cm.; 82¼ x 75⅝ in.
Count Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710–1792), Copenhagen, by 1780 (according N. Hoyen, 1841);
Thence by descent to his son, Count Joachim Godske Moltke (1746–1818), Copenhagen;
Thence by descent to his son, Count Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785–1864), Copenhagen;
Thence by descent to his son, Count Frederik Georg Julius Moltke (1825–1875), Copenhagen;
Thence by descent to his son, Count Frederik Christian Moltke (1854–1936), Copenhagen, by 1885;
His sale, Copenhagen, W. Winkel and Magnussen, 1–2 June 1931, lot 125, to 'Mr. Smith' on behalf of Carl Salomonsen;
Probably thence by descent in the family;
By whom probably anonymously sold, London, Christie's 14 May 1965, lot 89, to Dewitt;
With Johnny van Haeften, London, by circa 1990;
From whom acquired.
N.L. Hoyen, Fortegnelse ober der Moltkeske Maleriesamling, Copenhagen 1841, no. 16;
Catalogue des tableaux de la collection du comte de Moltke, Copenhagen 1885, pp. 4, 13–14, no. 16;
N. Hoyen and K. Madsen, Fortegnelse over den Moltkeske Malerisamling, Copenhagen 1900, no. 16;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, Vienna and Leipzig 1910, vol. II, p. 696;
A. Fugl, 'Den Moltkeske Malerisamling', in Samleren, no. 4, April 1931, p. 55, reproduced p. 51;
J. De Maere and M. Wabbes, Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters, Brussels 1994, vol. III, pp. 1075 and 1154;
M. Klinge and D. Lüdke, David Teniers der Jüngere 1610–1690: Alltag und Vergnügen in Flandern, exh. cat., Heidelberg 2005, pp. 310–311, no. 102, reproduced.
Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, David Teniers der Jüngere 1610–1690: Alltag und Vergnügen in Flandern, 5 November 2005 – 19 February 2006, no. 102.