Peasant, 1640s
copper, oil paint, 8.5 x 6.6 cm
- Current attribution
- Rejected attribution
- Date
- 1640s
- Title
- Peasant
- Genre
- Subject keywords
- Object
- Support/medium
- The support of this painting is a slightly bumpy copper panel, with an illegible inscription on the reverse. The condition of the paint film is very good, although there is a little thinness in the half tones. There are a few small retouchings, including what appears to be an old, slightly raised restoration above the peasant’s hat. The paint at the panel edges bears a few minor damages: there are some small chipped losses to the top left and bottom right corners. On top of the paint layers there is a natural resin varnish, which appears darkest and most discoloured where it has been hidden under the frame rebate; this indicates, possibly, that at some point the work was cleaned while still in its frame. Previous recorded treatment: 1953, conserved, Dr Hell; 2006, cleaned and restored, N. Ryder (Sophia Plender).
- Shape/sizes
- 8.5 x 6.6 cm
- Signature/inscription
- DT.F (DT in monogram)
- Physical relationship
- Collection(s)
- Noel Joseph Desenfans
?Insurance 1804, no. 34 and no. 35 (‘A Peasant - Teniers · £30’ or ‘Ditto - Ditto. £30’);
1804 - 1807 - Sir Francis Bourgeois
Desenfans Bequest
1807 - 1811 - Dulwich Picture Gallery , inv./cat.nr. DPG110
Britton 1813, p. 1, no. 7.8 (‘Small parlour / no. 7.9; Two small heads - Copper - Teniers’; 10" × 9").
Bourgeois Bequest
from 1811
- Noel Joseph Desenfans
- Literature in RKDLibrary
- Jameson 1842, vol. 2, p. 466, no. 149
- Sparkes 1876, p. 174, no. 149
Head of an old woman - Richter/Sparkes 1880, p. 161, no. 149
David Teniers I, ‘formerly ascribed to Teniers the Younger’ - Richter/Sparkes 1892, p. 28, no. 110
NB: in 1892 the paintings were given the inventory numbers they still have - Richter/Sparkes 1905, p. 28, no. 110
- Cook 1914, p. 66
- Cook 1926, p. 62
- Blunt/Burchard/Waterhouse 1953, p. 39
David Teniers I - Murray 1980, p. 126
David Teniers II - Murray 1980A, p. 28
- Beresford 1998, p. 232
‘A peasant’ - Bergvelt/Jonker 2016, p. 248–249, 266
- Bergvelt/Jonker 2021
- Other literature
- Cat. 1817 [copy in RM: 453 D 62] R. Cockburn, Catalogue of the collection of pictures bequeathed to Dulwich College by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, 356 nos., p. 17, no. 341 (Fifth Room – North Side; Head of an old Woman; D. Teniers)
- [B. R. Haydon], ‘Art. X. Descriptive and critical catalogues of the most splendid collections of works of art in Great Britain. Catalogue of the pictures bequeathed to God’s Gift College, Dulwich, in the County of Surrey, by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, R.A. &c. &c. as they are now arranged in the new Gallery erected for their reception; with brief remarks on some of the most interesting’, Annals of the Fine Arts for MDCCCXVI [1816], 1 (1817), p. 399, no. 341
- Denning 1859 S.P. Denning [assisted by the Rev Stephen Denning], ‘Catalogue of Pictures’ (MS, DPG archive; unfoliated; picture numbers up to no. 202), no. 149
- Cat. 1830 Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Bequeathed to Dulwich College by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, London n.d., 355 nos. [c. 1830 + annotations NAL, London, 79A], p. 8, no. 149
- Denning 1858 S.P. Denning [assisted by the Rev Stephen Denning], ‘Catalogue of Pictures’ (MS, DPG archive; unfoliated; picture numbers up to no. 366), no. 149 (David Teniers II; companion to 148 [= DPG106; RKD, no. 290145])
- Cat. 1820 R. Cockburn, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Bequeathed to Dulwich College by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, 356 nos. [c. 1820 – in NAL, London, 79A], p. 17, no. 341
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