The Temptation of Saint Anthony

David Teniers the Younger (Flemish, 1610–1690)

about 1650

Medium/TechniqueOil on copper

Dimensions59.1 x 79.4cm (23 1/4 x 31 1/4in.)
Framed: 83.8 x 104.5 x 7 cm (33 x 41 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession number2019.2082

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceChristian IV von Zweibrücken (b. 1722 – d. 1775), Zweibrücken, Germany; April 6, 1778, Zweibrücken estate sale, Rémy, Paris, lot 18, sold to J. B. P. Lebrun (dealer; b. 1748 – d. 1813), Paris [see note 1]; possibly given by Lebrun to Alexandre-Joseph Paillet (dealer), Paris [see note 2]. J. J. P. Augustin Lapeyrière (b. 1779 – d. 1831); April 19, 1825, Lapeyrière sale, Henry and Lacoste, Paris, lot 156, sold for 8750 fr. to Jacques Laffitte (b. 1767 – d. 1844), Paris; December 15, 1834, Lafitte sale, Paillet, Paris, lot 4, sold for 7980 fr. to Laneuville [see note 3]. Anatole Nicolaievitch Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (b. 1813 - d. 1870), Florence; April 18, 1868, Galerie San Donato sale, Paillet, Paris, lot 17, sold for 16,500 fr. to Francis Petit (dealer; d. 1877), Paris. Jeanne Seillière (b. 1839 – d. 1905), Princess of Sagan [see note 4]. By 1893, Charles Tyson Yerkes (b. 1837 – d. 1905), New York; April 5-8, 1910, Yerkes estate sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 166, sold for $3500 to W. Bank [see note 5]. By 1992, private collection, The Netherlands [see note 6]; May 18, 1995, anonymous (“The Property of a European Collector”) sale, Christie’s, New York, lot 132. 1996, sold by Emmanuel Moatti (dealer), Paris, and Jack Kilgore (dealer), New York, to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2019, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 2019)

NOTES:
[1] The sale catalogue gallicizes Zweibrücken to Deux-Ponts.

[2] According to the Getty Provenance Index database (catalogue F-A507), a copy of the sale catalogue has a handwritten annotation that notes Lebrun bought the painting, then gave it to Paillet.

[3] A handwritten annotation in the sale catalogue notes the lot was sold to "Laneuville pour l'Angleterre" (Laneuville for England).

[4] According to the 1910 American Art Association sale catalogue, the painting was from the collection of the Princess of Sagan.

[5] In the deluxe edition of the catalogue, the painting is listed as cat. no. 98.

[6] This painting was first lent to the MFA on May 5, 1992.