David Teniers the Younger

Teniers II, David

Flemish, 1610 - 1690

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Flemish Baroque painter (1610–1690)

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Portrait of a Nobleman

Mauro Gandolfi, David Teniers the Younger · early 19th century · engraving on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2020.87.3

Two men sit playing cards at a narrow table as three more look on and others urinate, sleep, or gather near the entrance of a tavern in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale, peachy skin and wear jackets, pants, and hats in shades of fawn brown, muted marine blue, parchment white, and charcoal gray. The card players take up the bottom left quadrant of the composition. The player to our left holds his cards out so we can see them as he lifts a tall tankard. He sits on a wooden chair with a vivid red cap hanging from one rail on the back. The player across from him sits on a wooden box and has an iron key hanging from the hip we see. He shows his cards to a third man, directly across from us, who sits and leans forward nearly nose-to-nose, smiling broadly with lips parted. That third man wears an orchid-purple hat and earthy brown and blue clothing. He holds a long-stemmed white clay pipe in one hand and the handle of another tall tankard with the other. Two men, both with clay pipes, stand on the far side of the table to watch the action, and another stands facing away from us near the wall to the left, presumably urinating into a pot there. A knee-high jug with a pewter cap sits near the first player and a piece of chalk and a picture of an owl flanked by spectacles and a candle hang on the light brown wall overhead. This room opens onto a larger room beyond, where one man lies belly down on a bench with his face buried in his crossed arms. Another man sits on a bench to the right, and four men gather near the door on the far wall. A woman stands in the partially open door and looks at one of the men. Dishes and vessels line a high shelf to the left of the door, and a fire burns in a high-mantled fireplace to our right. In the lower right corner and again close to us, a barrel, clay dish, white cloth, chopped firewood, and a sleeping dog are near a wooden beam that parallels the edge of the painting. The artist signed the lower right corner, “D. TENIERS FEC,” and, on the picture of the owl are the letters “AA” and the date, 1658.
David Teniers the Younger, Tavern Scene, 1658, oil on panel, Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith, 1975.77.1

Tavern Scene

David Teniers the Younger · 1658 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1975.77.1

David Teniers the Younger, Two Peasants with a Glass of Wine, c. 1645, oil on panel, Gift of Nell V. Weidenhammer, 1992.27.1

Two Peasants with a Glass of Wine

David Teniers the Younger · c. 1645 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1992.27.1

Seven pale-skinned people crowd around a wooden table to our right in this horizontal painting, as several more gather around a fire in a deeply shadowed room beyond, to our left. The room we are in has high ceilings and peanut-brown walls and floor. At the center of the composition, a man dressed in mustard yellow with a yellow and burnt-orange jester’s cap stands facing us. His smiling mouth is agape, and he lifts his left arm, to our right, to gesture toward the group at the table there. His feet are widely planted, and a ceramic jug dangles from his other hand. At the table to our right, one man sits at the front, left corner of the table, leaning back in his chair as he raises his black hat high in his right hand, closer to us. His face is tipped up and his mouth is wide open. Across from him is another young man in a blue-gray jacket who wears a paper crown. With the back of the wrist closer to us planted on his hip, he tilts back his head to drink from a tall tankard held in his other hand. One young and one older woman women sit smiling among the men. The younger woman wears a navy-blue dress with a white cap covering the back of her blond hair, and the older woman is in ocean blue with a white head covering. Two more men at the table also have their mouths open and wear earth-toned clothes. A man has poked his head through a small, squared opening high on the wall above the table to our right, to look down at the group. Over the the man in the jester's hat, a gray owl sits chained to a perch driven into the wood stud that frames the wall behind the group. Bits of paper are scattered on the floor and two terracotta jugs sit gleaming in the lower right corner. A tawny cat peers out from behind the drinker’s seat. A dog with sable-brown fur lies near a low table in the lower left corner of the painting. A shallow, terracotta dish with short feet sits on the table and a brown ceramic jug, oyster shells, and a few stalks of straw sit near the dog and table. In the dimly lit room beyond this one, a man, woman, and four children gather around a fireplace. The woman holds a long-handled griddle over the flame, and she turns to look back over her shoulder. The artist signed and dated the work as if he had written on the front edge of the low table to our left: “D. TENIERS F 1635.”
David Teniers the Younger, Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night, 1635, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.10.1

Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night

David Teniers the Younger · 1635 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1972.10.1

David Teniers the Younger, Peasants in a Tavern, c. 1633, oil on panel, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Ely Pflieger, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.140.1

Peasants in a Tavern

David Teniers the Younger · c. 1633 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1991.140.1

David Teniers the Younger, Vista from a Grotto, early 1630s, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.56.1

Vista from a Grotto

David Teniers the Younger · early 1630s · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1971.56.1

Coryn Boel, David Teniers the Younger, The Monkeys' Barber Shop, mid 17th century, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Ruth B. Benedict, 1994.60.4

The Monkeys' Barber Shop

Coryn Boel, David Teniers the Younger · mid 17th century · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1994.60.4

Printed in black and gray tones against cream-white paper, three cats, three kittens, two monkeys, and an owl gather on and around a dining table in this horizontal etching and engraving. A round-topped table is covered by a white cloth at the center of the composition. The pedestal-style legs have feet carved to look like sleepy fish. Three cats and three smaller kittens sit on the table and presumably sing, their mouths open, around a music book. An owl with brushy, feathery brows perches on the top of the book, which is propped up on the table. A seventh cat peers through a rectangular opening in the wall to our left, looking down on the scene. Two monkeys hunch together in the lower right corner. One wears a floppy cap with a feather, the other a hooded robe, and that second one plays a horn instrument. Two lutes, a bagpipe, and another horn instrument are clustered in the lower right corner of the sheet around a book titled “TENOR.” Text inscribed in the plate near the lower left corner reads, “D Teniers In et excud. cum privilegio” and one to the right reads, “Cory Boel. f.”
Coryn Boel, David Teniers the Younger, The Cat's Concert, engraving and etching on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.15

The Cat's Concert

Coryn Boel, David Teniers the Younger · · engraving and etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.15

David Teniers the Younger, Interior of a Kitchen, etching on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.14

Interior of a Kitchen

David Teniers the Younger · · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.14

David Teniers the Younger, Studies of Market Figures, graphite, Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1983.74.19

Studies of Market Figures

David Teniers the Younger · · graphite ·  Accession ID  1983.74.19

Bibliography

1753

  • Houbraken, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. 3 vols. in 1. The Hague, 1753 (Reprint: Amsterdam, 1976): 1:345-347.

1829

  • Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. 9 vols. London, 1829-1842: 3(1831):247-502.

1883

  • Branden, Franz Joseph van den. Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche Schilderschool. Antwerp, 1883: 981-1008.

1895

  • Rosenberg, Adolf. Teniers der Jünger. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1895.

1971

  • Bie, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet van de edel vry schilderconst. Edited by Gerard Lemmens. Reprint of Antwerp, 1661/1662. Soest, 1971: 334-339.

  • Duverger, Erik, and Hans Vlieghe. David Teniers der Ältere: ein vergessener flämischer Nachfolger Adam Elsheimers. Utrecht, 1971.

1979

  • Davidson, Jane P. David Teniers the Younger. Boulder, 1979.

1980

  • Bruegel. Une dynastie de peintres. Exh. cat. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1980: 251-258.

1982

  • Klinge, Margret. Adriaen Brouwer, Devid Teniers the Younger. Exh. cat. Noortman Brod, New York and Maastricht, 1982.

1991

  • Klinge, Margret. David Teniers the Younger: Paintings, Drawings Exh. cat. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. Antwerp, 1991

1993

  • Sutton, Peter C., and Marjorie E. Wieseman, et al. The Age of Rubens. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art. Boston, 1993.

2005

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2005: 231-232.