Landscape with Peasants Dancing

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Landscape with Peasants Dancing

David TeniersLinkedCulture matchlcp-110718ec8366

Date
c. 1645–50
Medium
oil on wood
Culture
Flanders
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
159501

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Before a rustic inn, a group of villagers converse, embrace, and dance to a bagpiper’s tune. Teniers was one of many Netherlandish artists whose paintings celebrate the joys of country life. These delicately painted works were created primarily for an elite urban audience nostalgic for a simpler existence. This painting combines two of David Teniers's specialties: landscape and scenes of country life.

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Credit line
Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust
Provenance
1996-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | 1962-1996: Frances W. Ingalls [1926-1996], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1949-1962: Jane Taft Ingalls [1874-1962], Cleveland, OH, by descent to her daughter-in-law, Frances W. Ingalls | 1949: Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to Jane Taft Ingalls | 1946-1949: Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], East Barnard, VT, sold to Rosenberg & Stiebel | 1945-1946: In possession of the United States Forces in Austria (USFA), restituted to Louis de Rothschild | 1938-1945: In possession of the Nazis; selected by Hitler for the Führermuseum, Linz | Probably 1911-1938: Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], Vienna, confiscated by the Nazis | Probably until 1911: Baron Albert de Rothschild [1844- 1911], Vienna, by descent to his son, Baron Louis de Rothschild

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