The Boors' Concert

early 1640s

David Teniers the Younger Flemish, 1610 - 1690

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

The Boors' Concert: 1 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Title The Boors' Concert

Artwork Date early 1640s

Artist David Teniers the Younger

Life Dates 1610 - 1690

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Flemish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 15 3/4 × 24 inches (40 × 61 cm) Framed: 22 1/4 × 31 × 2 5/16 inches (56.5 × 78.7 × 5.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, and Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2007.128

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Provenance

until 1840, Prince Joseph Bonaparte;
purchased by Pennel (England);
1842, Chaplin (England);
Galerie Sedelmeyer (Paris, France);
June 3-5, 1907, sold by (Féral, Paris, France) auction Ch. Sedelmeyer, lot 58;
by 1932, (Gallery W.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, Netherlands);
(Scott and Fowles, London, England and New York, New York, USA);
Mary Hanna (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA);
by 1939, (Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, USA);
by inheritance to J. Warner Prins (New York, New York, USA);
January 25, 2007, sold by (Sotheby's, New York, New York, USA) lot 5 [bought in];
purchased by (Jack Kilgore & Co., New York, New York, USA);
2007-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Smith, J. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 9 (Supplement). London, 1842, pp. 422-423, no. 55.

Hollandsche en Vlaamsche schilderkunst der XVIIe eeuw: keuzetentoonstelling [Exhibition of selected Dutch and Flemish pictures of the XVIIth century]. Exh. cat., E.J. van Wisselingh & Co. Amsterdam, 1932, pp. 18-19, cat. 9 (ill.).

Catalogue of European and American Paintings 1500-1900. Exh. cat., World's Fair. New York, 1940, pp. 57-58, cat. 78.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Genre Painting in Europe 1500-1900. Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1954, cat. 34 (ill.).

Leppard, R.D. "David Teniers the Younger and the Image of Music." Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (1978): pp. 63-155 (fig. 8).

Keyes, George S. “Three Recent Acquisitions by David Teniers the Younger, Philips Wouwerman, and Willem van Mieris.” Bulletin of the DIA 90, no. 1/4 (2016): pp. 44–57 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

David Teniers the Younger, The Boors' Concert, early 1640s, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, and Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, 2007.128.