David Teniers the Younger
Recto: Studies of soldiers and other figures | Verso: Rugged landscape with a wayside cross
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David Teniers the Younger
(Antwerp 1610 – 1690 Brussels)
Recto: Studies of soldiers and other figures
Verso: Rugged landscape with a wayside cross
Black lead, with touches of pen and brown ink (recto only), within brown ink framing lines;
bears inscription in black chalk, verso: Teniers
153 by 194 mm
Dr. Max Graff (b. 1882), Herford (L.1157b)
M. Klinge, 'David Teniers der Jüngere als Zeichner. Die Antwerpener Schaffenszeit (1633-1651)', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 1997, pp. 148, 246, cat. 33, recto reproduced p. 149, fig. 34
Teniers was extremely unusual for his time in favouring the use of black lead or graphite as his primary drawing medium. This, along with his characteristic figure style and handling of landscape motifs, make his drawings some of the most immediately recognisable of the period.
Dr. Margaret Klinge (loc. cit.) considered this interesting double-sided sheet to be an early work, dating from around 1640, and pointed out that the recto is among the earliest examples of a study sheet with various motifs of a military nature. The drawing is unusual in combining, on its two sides, two of Teniers’ typical types of drawings: sheets of figures studies and studies of mountain landscapes.
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