David Teniers the Younger: 9 works

'The somewhat clumsy walking peasant and the two resting ones;Hilly landscape with resting peasants are typical of Teniers\'s figural style in the period around 1640 .Noteworhty is also the impressionist way of paint application which is exceptional in 17th century Dutch painting (see also Hobbema's A wooded landscape with roadside cottage).'

'A rare scene in Teniers' production, but a traditional Flemish theme popularized in the 16th century by Pieter Brueghel (grandfather to Teniers' first wife), the slaughtering of the pig enlivens this otherwise cold peasant scene.'

'Here David Teniers, chamberlain, court painter and keeper of the archduke's art collection, is accompanying the scholarly collector on a visit to his gallery.'

'Peintre de paysages, de scènes de genre et de natures mortes, David Teniers le Jeune est l'un des artistes les plus populaires de l'école flamande du XVIIe siècle.'

'Like Bruegel, Teniers creates episodes in which we can recognise the vices of Lechery (in the man molesting a woman to the right of centre), Wrath (two men are kept from each other in the background), drunkenness (in the figure sleeping it off to the lower right) and general boorishness (seen throughout).'

'The painting, The Country Pub, signed D. Teniers F.(ecit) in the upper tract, offers same complex pictorial approach, its subject and artistic manner clearly showing it to be a product of the artist's most creative period.'

'Teniers owned a country house at Viloorde in the neighbourhood; the Hemiksem brickyard was one of the oldest in the Netherlands.'

'Teniers greatly appealed to English collectors during the 18th century, when his work was praised by famous artists like Sir Joshua Reynolds.'

'Teniers frequently painted this subject and basically these works present a re-use of the main motifs. Compared to the works of his mature period during the 1640s when he depicted the scene in a cave, this work and his other later period works put more emphaisis on the depictoin of the landscape.'