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| Title | Interior with Figures | |
| Collection | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Attributed to Duyfhuysen, Pieter Jacobsz. (Dutch painter, 1608-1677) Previously attributed to Potuyl, Henrik (Dutch painter, active 1630-1660) Previously attributed to Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) |
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| Date | 1643 (dated) | |
| Description | The still life elements assume much great prominence in the foreground than the mother and children at the back of the patchily lit room. The emergence of Duyfhuysen is entirely due to the research of Willem van de Watering, who has identified a small group of pictures all masquerading under different attributions. Duufhuysen specialised in small genre paintings which show a variety of influences including the Fleming David Teniers, with whom his pictures appear to have been confused, as well as with painters of the Leyden school, especially Pieter van Slingeland and Ary de Vois. | |
| Current Accession Number | 1928P205 | |
| Former Accession Number | P.205´28 | |
| Inscription | front ll 'P ANo 1643' | |
| Subject | everyday life (cottage interior, domestic scene); still life; figure | |
| Measurements | 37.5 x 50.4 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Miss Rosalind Preece 1928. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Art Treasures of the Midlands, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1934, cat. no. 129a; Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century: Images of a Golden Age in British Collections, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 1989, cat. no. 185 | |
| Publications | Wright, C. (ed), Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century: Images of a Golden Age in British Collections, Birmingham, 1989; Catalogue of Paintings in Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, 1960; Foreign Paintings in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, A Summary Catalogue, 1983, no. 116 (as Potuyl); Watering, Willem L. van de, ‘Pieter Duyfhuysen (1608 - 1677 een reconstructie van he oevre van een vergeten Rooterdamse Schilder' in Hollandische Genremalerei im 17. Jahrhundert Symposium Berlin; Bock, H., and Gaehtgens, T. W., (eds), Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1984, p. 362, no. 17 | |
| Notes | Some confusion over the inscription. Wright says monogram and dated 'HP 1643'.Gallery records state that inscription reads 'D.T. ANo 1643'. Circular label on panel cradle, 'J 414'. This work was accessioned as by David Teniers II. | |
| Rights Owner | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Author | Dr Patricia Smyth | |