David Teniers the Younger

Jacques Meyers (d. 1721), Rotterdam, by 1714;

His estate sale, Rotterdam, 9 September 1722, lot 178;

Where acquired by Lambert van der Truyn, on behalf of Sir Gregory Page (circa 1695-1775), 2nd Baronet, Blackheath, London, for 576 Dutch guilders;

Brought to France by John Bertels, Brussels and London, 1785;

From whom acquired by Jean Dubois, Paris, 1785, for 24,000 livres;

His sale, Paris, Paillet, 18 December 1788, lot 28;

Where acquired by Thomas-François Guérin (1756-1829), Paris, for 15,400 livres;

François-Antoine Robit (1752-1815), Paris, by 1800;

His sale, Paris, Paillet and Delaroche, 11 May 1801, lot 147;

Where acquired by Rieul Rocheux and Féréol Bonnemaison, on behalf of Armand Séguin (1767-1835), for 12,720 francs;

Charles Ferdinand of Bourbon (1778-1820), Duke of Berry, Palais de l'Elysée, Paris;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1798-1870), Duchess of Berry, Palais de l'Elysée, Paris;

Her sale, Paris, Paillet, 5 April 1837, lot 7;

Where acquired by Charles J. Nieuwenhuys (1799-1883), Brussels and London, for 15,900 francs;

Charles Heusch (circa 1775-1848), London, by 1842;

Thence by descent to his son, Frederick Heusch (1809-1870), London;

From whom acquired, with the entire Heusch collection, by Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879), 148 Piccadilly, London, 1855;

Thence by descent to his son, Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917), Ascott House, Buckinghamshire;

Thence by descent to his son, Anthony Gustav de Rothschild (1887-1961), Berkeley Square, London;

From whom acquired by Tancred Borenius (1885-1948), London, 1942;

John Enrico Fattorini (1878-1949), Bradford, Yorkshire;

Thence by descent in the family until sold ("Property from the Fattorini Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1996, lot 12;

Where acquired by Joseph L.H. Lau;

With Johnny Van Haeften, London, by 1999;

From whom acquired by the late collector, 2000.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, 1873, no. 212 (lent by Baron Lionel de Rothschild);

London, Royal Academy of Arts, 17th Century Art in Europe, 3 January - 12 March 1938, no. 101 (lent by Anthony de Rothschild);

York City Art Gallery, long-term loan, 1989 - 1995.

Description du cabinet de tableaux de M^r. Meyers a Rotterdam, Rotterdam 1714, p. 24;

R. Dodsley, London and its Environs, London 1761, p. 320;

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. III, London 1831, p. 334, cat. no. 277;

J. Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London 1842, pp. 439-441, cat. no. 103;

Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, exhibition catalogue, London 1873, p. 22, cat. no. 212;

N. de Pauw, Les trois peintres de David Teniers et leurs homonymes, Antwerp 1898, p. 65, cat. no. 11;

An Illustrated Souvenir of the Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, exhibition catalogue, London 1938, p. 28, cat. no. 101, reproduced;

H. Simon, "Zu Datierung und Ikonographie des Genter Jahrmarkts von David Teniers D.J.," in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 57 (1996), pp. 195-211, reproduced fig. 1;

A. Hindley, Drama and Community: People and Plays in Medieval Europe, Brepols 1999, reproduced on cover;

E. Duverger, Documents concernant le commerce d'art de Francisco-Jacomo van der Berghe et Gillis van der Vennen de Gand avec la Hollande et la France pendant les premières decades du XVIII^e siècle, Wetteren 2004, p. 249;

K. Jonckheere, The Auction of King William's Paintings, 1713: Elite International Art Trade at the End of the Dutch Golden Age, Amsterdam 2008, pp. 112, 127-129, 288, cat. no. 65 (Appendix B4), reproduced fig. 88;

W. White, Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485-1660, Cambridge 2008, p. 13, reproduced fig. 1.