Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009401Landscape with Peasants Dancing
About the Artwork
Before a rustic inn, a group of villagers converse, embrace, and dance to a bagpiper’s tune. Teniers was one of many Netherlandish artists whose paintings celebrate the joys of country life. These delicately painted works were created primarily for an elite urban audience nostalgic for a simpler existence.
Provenance
1996-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio 1962-1996: Frances W. Ingalls [1926-1996], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1949-1962: Jane Taft Ingalls [1874-1962], Cleveland, OH, by descent to her daughter-in-law, Frances W. Ingalls 1949: Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to Jane Taft Ingalls 1946-1949: Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], East Barnard, VT, sold to Rosenberg & Stiebel 1945-1946: In possession of the United States Forces in Austria (USFA), restituted to Louis de Rothschild 1938-1945: In possession of the Nazis; selected by Hitler for the Führermuseum, Linz Probably 1911-1938: Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], Vienna, confiscated by the Nazis Probably until 1911: Baron Albert de Rothschild [1844- 1911], Vienna, by descent to his son, Baron Louis de Rothschild
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690)
- Date
- c. 1645–50
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 69 x 96.5 x 8 cm (27 3/16 x 38 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 49 x 78 cm (19 5/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust
- Accession no.
- 1996.271
More by David Teniers in museum collections
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