(Antwerp 1610–1690 Brussels)
An extensive rocky landscape with two shepherds,
signed lower left: D. Teniers,
oil on canvas, 117 x 129.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
Collection Max Kann;
with Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 1900, lot 43;
Collection Charles Sedelmeyer, Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 3 June 1907, lot 54;
sale, Paris, 21 April 1910, lot 62;
sale, Charpentier, Paris, 27 March 1933, lot 29;
Collection of the actor Paul Henreid (1908–1992), Los Angeles;
sale, Christie’s, London, 24 March 1972, lot 70;
Private collection, Brussels

We are grateful to Margret Klinge for endorsing the attribution of the present painting to David Teniers II after examination of the original. She dates it into the late 1650s. A written certificate (September 2020) is available.

Klinge writes: ‘This pastoral landscape by David Teniers the Younger, dating from the late 1650s, can be assigned to the artist’s courtly Brussels period. The wide expanse of the landscape, with its meandering river and green banks and the sky high above, has been captured with a lot of atmosphere. Shepherds tend their flocks on the hills and mountain slope in the warm light of the far-reaching rays of the sun, which as such is obscured by a dark rain cloud. Images of a peaceful life in the country, such pastoral themes enjoyed great popularity.’