Tavern Yard with a Game of Bowls

Adriaen Brouwer (Flemish, 1606–1638)

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions40.6 × 61 cm (16 × 24 in.)

Credit LineThe Maida and George Abrams Collection—Partial gift, and museum acquisition with funds donated by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession number2020.400

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InscriptionsMonogrammed AB in ligature on the bowl at rightProvenance1985, Bernard Benattia (dealer), Paris [see note]; 1985, sold by Benattia to Jan van Trigt (dealer), Rotterdam; June 8, 1985, sold by Jan van Trigt to Gerard Meyer (dealer), Amsterdam; 1985, sold by Gerard Meyer to George S. and Maida Abrams, Newton, MA; 2020, sold by George S. Abrams to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 16, 2020)

NOTE: This is one of at least six closely-related compositions by, attributed to, or after Adriaen Brouwer. When it was sold in 1985, it was attributed to an artist working in the style of David Teniers. In The Age of Rubens (exh. cat. MFA Boston, 1993-1994), pp. 407-408, it was published with an erroneous provenance.