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Tavern Scene
168018 3/8 x 24 in. (46.7 x 61 cm)
David Teniers the Younger
Flanders (Antwerp, 1610 - 1690, Brussels)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Bertha Buswell Bequest
Accession Number:
1955.70
Location: Currently on view
Collection:
Buswell-Hochstetter Collection
The son-in-law of Jan Brueghel and a friend of Peter Paul Rubens, Teniers achieved success in Antwerp and then moved to Brussels, where he served as court painter to the archduke Leopold Wilhelm and later to Don Juan of Austria. Tavern Scene is one of numerous genre paintings in which rustics carouse, uninhibited by notions of propriety or temperance. Such subjects frequently served a moralizing purpose, indicated here by the drawing tacked to the wall above the laughing drunkard. The bird flanked by eyeglasses and candlestick may illustrate the proverb, “What use candle and spectacles if the owl cannot and will not see?”
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Provenance
Joshua Charles Vanneck, 4th Baron Huntingfield (1842-1915), Suffolk, England, by 1907; his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 25, 1915, as lot 115 [with the title "Festive Boors"]; purchased from that sale by [ ] Ford; Willibald Duschnitz (1884-1976), Vienna, by 1930; purchased from him by Bertha Hochstetter Buswell (Mrs. Henry Buswell), Buffalo, NY; her bequest to the Gallery, 1941; lifetime interest held by her brother, Ralph Hochstetter, Buffalo, NY, until his death in 1955, when it passed to the Gallery
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters 1/7/1907 - 3/16/1907
- Drei Jahrhunderte Vlämische Kunst, 1400-1700 Wiener-Secession Gallery 1/11/1930 - 3/3/1930
- The Buswell-Hochstetter Collections 11/11/1955 - 11/28/1955
- European Paintings from the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 1/15/1967 - 9/30/1967
- Contrasts/Comparisons 9/28/1973 - 10/28/1973
- Through the Looking Glass 12/6/1980 - 1/25/1981
- In Quest of Excellence Center for the Fine Arts 1/12/1984 - 4/22/1984
- Wine and Spirit: Rituals, Remedies and Revelry 9/2/2010 - 4/10/2011
- I Am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces 4/11/2022 - 8/14/2022
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Author: Koslow, Susan. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988. Page Number: 82-83
- Article Title: The November Exhibitions: The Buswell-Hochstetter Collections. Article Scope: Article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 21, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: November-December, 1955.
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. S. Lane Faison, Jr.. Art Tours and Detours in New York State. New York, New York: Random House, 1964.
- Article Author: Smith, Virginia Jeffrey. Article Title: Artists and Craftsmen: Intriguing Acquisitions Sampled at Gallery. Article Scope: Article. Rochester Times-Union. Rochester, New York, 1923-1963. Issue Date: November 14, 1955. Page Number: 48
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Article Scope: Article. Jan Van der Marck. In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship. Miami, FL: Center for the Fine Arts, 1984.
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Thomas R. Rumsey. Men and Women in Revolution and War, 1600-1815. Wellesley Hills, MA: The Independent School Press, 1985.
- Richard Unger. Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Drei Jahrhunderte Vlämische Kunst 1400-1700. Vienna: Adolf Holzhausens Nfg., 1930.
- John Varriano. Wine: A Cultural History. London, England: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2010.
- Article Author: Chipman, Harold H., and Leonhard Weidinger. Article Title: Ein Enthusiast für Industrie und Kunst-- Willibald Duschnitz. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Eva Blimlinger, ed. Die Praxis des Sammelns: . Vienna: Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Co., 2014. Page Number: 85, 86, 87, Figure Number: 2, abb. 4
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Jim Shedden, ed. I Am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces. Toronto, Ontario: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2022.
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