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| Title | Peasants in an Interior | |
| Alternative Title | Boors in an Interior | |
| Collection | English Heritage (Brodsworth Hall) | |
| Artist | After Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) Previously attributed to manner of Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) |
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| Date Earliest | possibly about 1700 | |
| Date Latest | about 1885 | |
| Description | David Teniers the younger was born Antwerp and was a highly successful painter of peasant scenes in interiors, peasant fairs and pastoral scenes. He was the court painter to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm. In this work, which seems to have been copied from an original by Teniers which exists in a number of variants, a man seated on a tub before a fire in a humble interior is filling his pipe. He is seen in profile, looking towards the viewer's left. In the background, a second man, seen from behind, is sweeping. | |
| Current Accession Number | 90009800 | |
| Subject | figure; everyday life; interior | |
| Measurements | 40.9 x 32.6 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Transferred to English Heritage 1990. | |
| Provenance | Acquired by Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson before 1885; by descent to Pamela Williams; purchased by National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1990. | |
| Publications | Dars, C., Catalogue of Paintings in British Collections: English Heritage etc., London, 1993, cat. no. 74, p. 33. | |
| Notes | This work is particularly close to Teniers' Peasant Filling his Pipe at Petworth (oil on oak, 39.4 x 32.4 cm): see Collins Baker, C. H., Catalogue of the Petworth Collection of Pictures in the Possession of Lord Leconfield, London, 1920, cat. no. 379, p. 120. However, the Brodsworth picture omits a strip on the right of the Petworth panel, and thus a group of cooking utensils, while providing the figure in the background with a broom so that he is sweeping rather than urinating into the pan on the floor. It was first recorded at Brodsworth Hall in Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson's posthumous inventory of 1885 as in the library ('Old man lighting pipe with fire in foreground'). It was still in the library at the time of the 1931 inventory ('Oil painting Old Man lighting Pipe with Fire in Foreground/damaged'), but was listed in the morning room by the time of the 1952 inventory ('1 Oil 15§ x 12§ man filling pipe in carved gilt frame'). |
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| Rights Owner | © English Heritage Photo Library | |
| Author | Richard Green | |