David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690)

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Flemish eyes of David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690)

Hermitage

15 October 2010 - January 16, 2011

The exhibition "Flemish eye of David Teniers the Younger," is dedicated to 400 anniversary of the birth of the Flemish artist. A unique collection of paintings by masters of the Hermitage - one of the best in the world, different thematic diversity of products and a high artistic level. The Museum has thirty-three paintings, created mainly in the heyday of the painter (1640-1650-ies.). Among those represented at the anniversary exhibition of the Hermitage paintings by masters of many genuine masterpieces. They show the main facets of art Teniers and allow to disclose the originality of his style.

David Teniers the Younger became famous as a great landscape painter and his inventions master scenes of peasant life, which showed boundless inner possibilities of this story. He became the best traditions of the Netherlands genre painting of the XVI century. The artist enjoyed huge fame in his lifetime. He was treated kindly by the powerful, who literally inundated painter orders. Patrons were Teniers Archduke Leopold Wilhelm and Spain's King Philip IV.

The work of David Teniers the Younger, from the State Hermitage Museum:

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1. views of the surrounding Brussels
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 26.7 h38 cm
Flanders. Start 1650-ies.
Source of Entry: Meeting Baron Ludmila Crozat de Thiers in Paris (acquired by Catherine II). 1772

2. Mountain Landscape
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 32h51 cm
Flanders. 1640
Source of Entry: Meeting Prince GA Potemkin in St. Petersburg. 1792

3. A group portrait of members of the Guild Rifle'Oude Voetboog'in Antwerp
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 135x183 cm
Flanders. 1643
Source of Entry: Meeting of the Empress Josephine at Malmaison. 1815

4. The courtyard of the peasant house
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 22h16 cm
Flanders. The second half of 1640-ies.
Source of Entry: Meeting Baron Ludmila Crozat de Thiers in Paris. 1772

5. Village Festival
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 97x138.5 cm
Flanders. 1648
Source of Entry: Meeting of the Duke of Choiseul in Paris. 1772

6. Village Festival
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 97x130 cm
Flanders. 1646
Source of Entry: Meeting of the Duke of Choiseul in Paris. 1772

7. duo
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 24.5 x19, 5cm
Flanders. Start 1640-ies.
Source of Entry: Meeting F. Tronchet in Geneva. 1770

8. The Reaping
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 49.5x69.5 cm
Flanders. Mid-1640's.
Source of Entry: Meeting P.P.Semenova-Tian-Shansky in Petrograd. 1915

9. A painter in his studio
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on wood. 25h21.5 see
Flanders. 1641

10. The Temptation of St.. Anthony
Teniers, David the Younger.
Oil on canvas. 99x132 cm
Flanders. 1650-ies.
Source of income to the museum: The Museum of the Academy of Arts in Petrograd (formerly: the collection of Count NA Kusheleva-Bezborodko). 1922