eniers, David the Younger 1610 Antwerp - 1690 Brussels "A young lady playing the guitar with children blowing soap bubbles." Oil on wood. 23 x 19.5cm. Monogrammed lower centre: DT (lig.). Framed. Reverse: Original paint. This painting served as a model for the engraving by De Launay le Jeune from 1790 (1749 -1814): "LA GUITARE. De la Galerie de S.A.S. Monseigneur Le Duc d'Orléans. - ÉCOLE FLAMANDE. - II.e TABLEAU DE DAVID TENIERS surnommé LE JEUNE". Literature: - Dubois de Saint-Gelais, Description des tableaux du Palais Royal avec la vie des peintres à la tête de leurs ouvrages dédié à Monseigneur Le Duc d'Orléans, Paris 1727, 1737 ( 2nd edition), p.115; - La Galerie du Duc d'Orléans au Palais Royal, Paris 1808, Vol. II, LA GUITARE, II.e TABLEAU DE DAVID TENIERS; - F. B. Descamps: La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois, avec des Portraits. Paris 1754, Vol.II, p. 163; - M. Wilson: The Orléans Gallery now exhibiting at the Great Room late the Royal Academy. No 125 Pall Mall, April 1793, no. 5; - W. Buchanan: Memoirs of Painting with a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution. Vol. I, London 1824, p. 188; - J. Smith: Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. London, 1831, Vol. III., p. 349, no. 336; - G.F. Waagen: Kunstwerke und Künstler in England. Berlin 1837, Vol.I, p. 519, no. 2; - G.F. Waagen: Treasures of Art in Great Britain. Vol. II, London 1854, p. 502, Teniers, David, no. 2; - C. Stryienski: La Galerie du Régent, Philippe, Duc d'Orléans. Paris 1913, p. 191, no. 512 "La Guitariste"; - M. Klinge: "Chardin le Teniers Francais." Genrebilder von David Teniers d.J. in Pariser Sammlungen 1700-1750. In: Exhibition catalogue, Jean Siméon Chardin, Karlsruhe 1999, p. 60, ill. 3 engraving by de Launay le Jeune: LA GUITARE; - C. White: The later Flemish Pictures in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen. London 2007, p. 323 mentioned in comparison to cat. no. 98. Provenance: - Purchased by Philippe, Duc d'Orléans (1674-1723 ), the regent of Louis XV.; - Remaining in the ducal collection in the Palais Royal, Paris, until Philippe Egalité (1747-1793 executed during the revolution). The painting is included in the inventories of 1724, 1752 and 1785; - 1792 purchased by Thomas More Slade, Esq. en bloc with the Flemish and Dutch paintings of the Orléans Collection for a consortium and brought to England, where this important collection was sold in London for several years. In the catalogue of M. Wilson for the first sales exhibition in London 1793, No 5; - Collection Philippe Panné, Esq., auction London, Christie's, 29 March 1819 to "Peacock"; - Collection of the late Dame Florence Emily Fermor-Hesketh, London, Christie's, 6 March 1925, no. 148 to the art dealer "Blairman"; - From the possession of Mrs. W. Reynell auctioned London, Christie's, 9 June 1939, no. 109 to "Mrs. Corrigan"; - Mrs. David Armstrong-Taylor, San Francisco, Ca.; - in the second half of the 1950s Newhouse Galleries, New York; - 1961 Julius Böhler, Munich; - since then privately owned in Hamburg.Born into an Antwerp family of painters in the Scheldt city in 1610, the young Teniers receives his education, as was customary at the time, in the workshop of the father of the same name, David Teniers the Elder (1582 - 1649), a history painter of the Rubens period. In the year of office 1632/33 David Teniers the Younger is accepted as an independent master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. Since then he signs and dates many of his paintings. His artistic conception and painting style, which is completely different from his father's style, is now clearly recognisable. In addition, the young Teniers has turned to a different circle of themes from the very beginning, the so-called genre painting, which connects him much stronger with Adriaen Brouwer, Cornelis and Herman Saftleven or various members of the Brueghel family.     (...)   full text:  <a href="https://lot-tissimo.com/en/cmd/d/o/9.66002-1/auk/438/i/16066715/p/1/">https://lot-tissimo.com/en/cmd/d/o/9.66002-1/auk/438/i/16066715/p/1/</a>