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[Peasant couple dancing]
- Title
- [Peasant couple dancing] [graphic] / D. Teniers fec.
- Author
- Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
- Publication
- [162-? or later]
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- Description
- 1 print : etching, b&w; 20 x 23 cm.
- Summary
- Portrayal of a peasant couple dancing, surrounded by onlookers and others engaged in various forms of revelry. The dancers are accompanied by a bagpiper, who stands on a barrel behind them; a dog romps in the space before them. In the background is a house, with a fence that encloses the scene.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Dance Committee Purchase Fund.
- Alternative Title
- Village kermesse
- Fȇte flamande
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Etchings.
- Note
- Lettered at bottom: Abraham Teniers excudit.
- Title derived from description in the online catalog of the British Museum, London, which holds a copy of this print. The British Museum dates this print between 1625 and 1690.
- Indexed In (note)
- Vuillier, Gaston, A history of dancing from the earliest ages to our own times, New York, D. Appleton, 1897
- Funding (note)
- Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Biography (note)
- David Teniers, known as David Teniers the younger, eclipsed his father in fame as a painter and etcher. He was born in Antwerp and worked there and in Brussels, where he served as the court painter of Archduke Leopold William. He often depicted scenes of peasant life in his paintings. Abraham Teniers, his brother, was also an artist.
- Call Number
- *MGZFD Ten D Pea 1
- OCLC
- 771303661
- Author
- Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
- Title
- [Peasant couple dancing] [graphic] / D. Teniers fec.
- Imprint
- [162-? or later]
- Indexed In:
- Vuillier, Gaston, A history of dancing from the earliest ages to our own times, New York, D. Appleton, 1897, p. 212.
- Biography
- David Teniers, known as David Teniers the younger, eclipsed his father in fame as a painter and etcher. He was born in Antwerp and worked there and in Brussels, where he served as the court painter of Archduke Leopold William. He often depicted scenes of peasant life in his paintings. Abraham Teniers, his brother, was also an artist.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Funding
- Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Local Note
- This item may be offsite for digitization. For additional information please contact dance@nypl.org.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Teniers, Abraham. Associated nameCommittee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFD Ten D Pea 1