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David Teniers the YoungerPerseus and Andromedac. 1650
c. 1650
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DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER (1610–1690)
Perseus and Andromeda
Oil on panel
42.5 × 26.7 cm (16³⁄₄ × 10¹⁄₂ in.)
Unsigned
Provenance
• Possibly Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Habsburg (1614–1662), Governor of the Spanish
Netherlands, Brussels (according to RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History).
• Gooden
Fox, Ltd., London.
• Acquired from the above by Christian B. Peper (1911–2011), Saint Louis (Missouri), in
1961.
• Anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, 6 June 2012, lot 89 (as attributed to David Teniers
the Younger).
Exhibited
• Saint Louis Art Museum, A Gentleman Collects, 25 October 2002 – 5 January 2003 (as
David Teniers the Younger).
This refined and expressive panel should be recognised as a modello by David Teniers the
Younger, produced after the celebrated Perseus and Andromeda by Peter Paul Rubens, today
in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Executed with a fluid touch and an economy of means
characteristic of Teniers’s preparatory practice, the painting illustrates the essential role he
played in shaping the visual identity and dissemination of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm’s
celebrated collection.
Appointed court painter and curator to the Archduke in 1647, Teniers found himself at the
centre of one of the greatest art collections in seventeenth-century Europe. Leopold Wilhelm
not only sought to amass masterpieces but also wished to publicise his holdings in a systematic
manner. To achieve this, Teniers developed an ambitious programme of painted reductions of
the most important works in the collection. These small-scale copies served both as accurate
visual records and as preparatory material for a monumental editorial project: the Theatrum
Pictorium, published in 1660 and often described as the first printed catalogue of a major art
collection.
Within this broader enterprise, Teniers was specifically commissioned to make small copies of
the Archduke’s major paintings, which were then often engraved. This work is one of them. Its
reduced format, its lively brushwork and its clear articulation of the essential elements of
Rubens’s composition are entirely consistent with other modelli associated with the project.
Rather than attempting to emulate Rubens’s full painterly bravura, Teniers distilled the
composition into a readable, elegant, and engravable image. Andromeda’s graceful pose, the
angel releasing her bonds, the distant figure of Perseus on Pegasus, and the sea monster
emerging from the waves are all rendered with a confident shorthand that reflects Teniers’s
mastery of translation rather than imitation.
Rubens’s original Perseus and Andromeda had been one of the great jewels of the Archduke’s
gallery, admired for its powerful integration of mythological drama and the sensual
expressiveness of the female nude. Teniers’s interpretation retains the essential dynamism of
the prototype, yet his lighter touch and more transparent palette subtly shift the emotional
atmosphere of the scene. The result is a work that is faithful to Rubens’s invention but
unmistakably shaped by Teniers’s eye and hand.
Painted modelli connected to the Theatrum Pictorium are rare on the market today and remain
highly sought-after for their significance in the history of collecting and early museography.
The probable link of the present panel to the Archduke’s own holdings, its long and coherent
provenance, and its inclusion in a public exhibition all enhance its historical and scholarly
interest. This painting stands as a remarkably engaging example of Teniers’s dual role as painter
and curator, and as the principal mediator of Rubens’s compositions at the Brussels court.
- Creator:David Teniers the Younger (1610 - 1690, Flemish)
- Creation Year:c. 1650
- Dimensions:Height: 42.5 in (107.95 cm)Width: 26.7 in (67.82 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2258217313062
David Teniers the Younger
David Teniers the Younger was a 17th-century Flemish painter known for his luminous depictions of peasant life. His work was greatly influenced by the tavern scenes of Adriaen Brouwer and the fluid paint handling of Peter Paul Rubens. Born on December 15, 1610 in Antwerp, Belgium, he was the son of the artist David Teniers the Elder, with whom he studied as a youth. Notably, Teniers later married the daughter of the painter Jan Brueghel the Elder. In the early 1630s, the Haarlem-based painter Brouwer moved to Antwerp, Teniers exposure to his low-genre paintings was a turning point in his career. Over the following decades, he enjoyed a popular reputation around Europe. Though most of his works were modest in scale, he was a prolific artist and is thought to have completed some 2,000 paintings over the course of his career. Teniers died on April 25, 1690 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, his work can be found in the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery of Art in London, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, among others.
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