School of DAVID TENIERS; second third of the seventeenth century. "Still life". Oil on canvas. Relined.

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  School of DAVID TENIERS; second third of the seventeenth century. "Still life". Oil on canvas. Relined. Presents repainting and restorations with frame of the twentieth century with damage. Measurements: 56 x 82 cm; 73 x 102 cm (frame). In this canvas we see a wide interior of kitchen, organized in two planes of depth, where there are objects that form small still lifes, as well as different characters, arranged in several planes. The author of this work constructs a great naturalistic and scenographic painting, combining the still life with large figures to build a personal genre scene. Already in the 17th century, the genre of still life with figures will gain great importance in the Dutch and Flemish schools, with more dynamic and theatrical compositions, fully framed within the Baroque style, as we see here. Son of David Teniers I, in his youth he remained faithful to his father's style. However, he soon specialized in genre painting, closely linked to the Flemish tradition. In 1638 he joined the Guild of St. Luke, of which he would later become dean. Among his patrons were the Bishop of Ghent and the Archduke Leopold William. Teniers was also artistic director of the archduke's collection, a position that included not only the conservation of paintings, but also the responsibility of choosing and acquiring new works for what was one of the most important painting collections of the 17th century. Thanks to this, the painter had the opportunity to get to know and study first-hand works by both contemporary and earlier masters, from different schools and genres. In 1651 he moved to Brussels on the occasion of his appointment as court painter, a position he retained with the arrival of the new archduke, John Joseph of Austria. He was free to work for other patrons, among them the greatest art connoisseurs of the 17th century: Christina of Sweden, William II of Orange and Philip IV. Supported by the latter, in 1669 he succeeded in realizing his project to create the Antwerp Academy. His influence reached the 18th century, and his works were part of the collections of the first Bourbons of Spain. His compositions were copied in tapestries that adorned the royal palace of Madrid, giving rise to a genre of great popularity, called "a la Teniers". Works by Teniers are kept in the most important museums of the world, such as the Prado, the Hermitage, the Louvre, the Metropolitan of New York, the National Galleries of London, Washington and Prague, the Rijksmuseum, the Royal Collection of London, the Ashmolean of Oxford, the Poldi Pezzoli of Milan, the Western Art Museum of Tokyo, the Thyssen-Bornemisza, or the Fine Arts Museums of Brussels, Vienna, Antwerp and Dresden.
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