A tapestry with dancing peasants after David Teniers - image-1

Lot 1341 Dα

A tapestry with dancing peasants after David Teniers

Auction 1096 - overview Cologne
17.11.2017, 10:00 - Deorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.232 € (incl. premium)

A tapestry with dancing peasants after David Teniers

Worked in wool and silk, lined. The borders replaced. Old repairs and some brittle areas. H 229, W 148 cm.
Attributed to Beauvais, Philippe Behagle, 1684 - 1705.

Provenance

Purchased from Bodenheim, Berlin, 1969.

Literature

For the motifs of Behagle, cf.: Standen, The Tapestry Weaver and the King: Philippe Behagle and Louis XIV, in: Metropolitan Museums Journal, v. 33/1998, p. 193 ff. Here explicitly mentioning Teniers.