Due to the high quality, fully identically composition and manner this work was attributed to the follower of famous Flemish painter David TENIERS the Younger (1610 - 1690).

David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output. He was an innovator in a wide range of genres such as history, genre, landscape, portrait and still life. He is now best remembered as the leading Flemish genre painter of his day.Teniers is particularly known for developing the peasant genre, the tavern scene, pictures of collections and scenes with alchemists and physicians.

He was court painter and the curator of the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the art loving Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands. He created a printed catalogue of the collections of the Archduke. He was the founder of the Antwerp Academy, where young artists were trained to draw and sculpt in the hope of reviving Flemish art after its decline following the death of the leading Flemish artists Rubens and Anthony van Dyck in the early 1640s. He was influential on the next generation of Northern genre painters as well as on French Rococo painters such as Antoine Watteau.

In their own way, Teniers created numerous derb humorous genre paintings from the farmer's and host's life as well as landscapes. His works are in numerous prominent museums of the world.

Literature: "General Artist´s Lexicon" by Thieme/Becker, Leipzig, 1999; Wikipedia on-line.

Inscription: unsigned.

Technique: oil on canvas/relined, baroque style frame.

Measurements: unframed w 28 1/3" x h 17 3/4" (72 x 45 cm), framed w 31 1/2" x h 20 7/8" (80 x 53 cm)

Condition: very good, original canvas was professionally relined, fine thin craquellee overall.