Mason Smoking with Companions in a Tavern, David Teniers (II), c. 1675

…; collection Willem Lormier (1682-1758), The Hague;{A seal showing Lormier’s coat of arms is on the reverse: D’Argent au chev.ron de gu.eules, acccompagnée de trois ormes arraché(s) de sin ople. The painting is not to be identified with no. 289 of Lormier’s interleaved printer’s copy of the catalogue of his collection (RKD), as it is too large; this was no. 276 of his widow’s sale, 4 July 1763, which was bought by Vosmaer (copy RKD).}…; ? collection Hendrik van Heteren (1672-1749), The Hague, (‘Een gezeldschap van zingende ende drinkende boeren in een binnehuis, door _David Teniers_. h. 13 en een half d., br. 11 en een half d. [35.3 x 30.1 cm] P.’);{‘Catalogus van Schilderyen, In’t Kabinet van den Heer Bewindhebber, Adriaen Leonard van Heteren in’s Hage’, in G. Hoet, _Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, met derzelver Pryzen Zedert een langen reeks van Jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere Plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt. Benevens een Verzamelingvan Lysten van Verscheyden nog in wezen zynde Cabinetten_, 3 vols., The Hague 1752-70, II, p. 460. The description is not accurate. Indeed SK-A-399 is not clearly identifiable until the 1858 museum catalogue, which states, like the inventory book drawn up in 1901, that the picture was from the Van Heteren collection. Of the six pictures by Teniers in the 1809 museum catalogue, two were sold, Amsterdam (de Vries et al.), 4 August 1828 _sqq_., nos. 129 and 130; this latter - no. 299 of the 1809 catalogue - has been identified, with qualification, with the present picture (SK-A-399). The description given of no. 302 of the 1809 catalogue (i.e. the present picture) changed from a happy company of peasants to the happy folk in 1853 and in 1858 to the resting work folk.} his son Adriaan Leonard van Heteren (1724-1800); his third cousin and godson, Adriaan Leonard van Heteren Gevers (1794-1866), Rotterdam, (‘[David Teniers] Beau tableau représentant des paysans et paysannes qui se divertissent, bois h. 13, l. 11 [34 x 28.8 cm]’);{‘Catalogue Raisonné d’une Collection de Tableaux appartenant à Monsieur A.L. Gevers, Page de Leurs Majestés le Roi et la Reine de Hollande’, _s.l._ 1808, transcribed in E.W. Moes and E. van Biema, _De Nationale Konst-Gallery en Het Koninklijk Museum_, Amsterdam 1909, pp. 145-51, esp. p. 150, no. 113.} from whom, fl. 100,000, with 136 other paintings _en bloc_ (known as the ‘Kabinet van Heteren Gevers’), to the museum, by decree of Lodewijk Napoleon, King of Holland, and through the mediation of his father Dirk Cornelis Gevers (1763-1839), 8 June 1808;{T.L.J. Verroen, ‘‘Een verstandig ryk Man’: de achttiende-eeuwse verzamelaar Adriaan Leonard Van Heteren’, in C. Scheffer (ed.) et al., _Achttiende-eeuwse kunst in de Nederlanden_, _Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek_ 4 (1985), pp. 17-61, esp. p. 17, notes 2, 3.} on loan to the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 1999-2011

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