Emil Bührle Collection

David Teniers the Younger

Village Festival

1646

Oil on canvas, on wood

57 x 79 cm

Signed lower left: DAVID TENIERS FEC; dated on the flag: 1646

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Provenance

1Mme Deville Paris • until 1826 John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 3, London 1831, p. 338, no. 291.

2Lord Charles Townshend • by 1831 Smith, as above, n. (1).

3Alfred de Rothschild Halton House (Buckinghamshire) • by 1884 Charles Davis, A Description of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Alfred de Rothschild, London 1884, vol. 1, Pictures, no. 30.

4Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1953 AStEGB, Sale confirmation from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], signed by F. K. Lloyd, to Emil Bührle, 1 October 1953, regarding a group of 10 artworks sold to Bührle for a total sum of £ 40.000 (= CHF 480.000), including Teniers, Kermis. Payment of this amount will be made in two installments, £ 27.000 from a Swiss account in London to Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, and £ 13.000 at an exchange rate of 12 CHF=1 £ (= CHF 156.000) to be transferred to Trafo’s account with UBS Zurich.

5Emil Bührle Zurich • 2 October 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 11.000 (with a 6% discount), Sale confirmation as above, n. (4), with prices for each artwork handwritten by Emil Bührle; AStEGB, Payment order, made by Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 1 October 1953 for the sum of CHF 156.000 to be transferred to Trafo, Vaduz, and Confirmation of execution of payment from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 2 October 1953.

6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 166.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Exhibitions

1828Pictures of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch and French Schools with which the Proprietors Have Favoured the Institution British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom (Pall-Mall Gallery) • London • 1828 no. 80.

1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf Castle • Jegenstorf (Bern) • 1955 no.  27.

1955Meisterwerke flämischer Malerei Museum zu Allerheiligen • Schaffhausen • 1955 no. 100.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 166.

References

1831John Smith A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters vol. 3 • London • 1831 • p. 338, no. 291.

1884Charles Davis A Description of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Alfred de Rothschild London • 1884 • vol. 1 Picures no. 30 (ill.).

1914Algernon Graves A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813–1912 vol. 3 R–U London • 1914 • p. 1291.

1953«Festive Scene: Teniers» in The Connoisseur (131) • 1953 • pp. 114 (ill.)–115 (ill. detail).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 167 (ill.;21986).

1978F. P. Dreher The Vision of Country Life in the Paintings of David Teniers II (Diss. Columbia University, New York) • Ann Arbour (Michigan) • 1978 • fig. 90.

1985Margret Klinge «Et in Flandria ego» in Rubens and His World, Bijdragen, Etudes, Studies, Beiträge, opgedragen aan Prof. Dr. Ir. R.-A. d’Hulst naar aanleiding van het vijfentwintigjarig bestaan van het Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de 16de en de 17de Eeuw Antwerp • 1985 • pp. 265–271, fig. 3, no. 4.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 18 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

1997Margareta Klinge «David Teniers der Jüngere als Zeichner, Die Antwerpener Schaffenszeit (1633–1651)» in Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen Antwerp • 1997 • pp. 168 (n. 310), 252.

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 26 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2005Margret Klinge «David Teniers d. J., Alltag und Vergnügen in Flandern, ‹es seint lauter pauern histori‹», in David Teniers der Jüngere 1610–1690, Alltag und Vergnügen in Flandern (exh. cat.) • Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe • 2005–06 • p. 36, fig. 13, n. 24.

2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 324 (ill.).