David Teniers the Younger

The Blind Leading the Blind

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David Teniers the Younger
The Blind Leading the Blind

1655 Non visitabile

These two small paintings are copies of Italian works. The scene of blind people stumbling into a hole is copied from a painting by Domenico Fetti, and the painting of Venus and Cupid from a work by Paris Bordone.

Teniers made the copies so that etchings could be made from them. They were intended for his Theatrum Pictorium, a book about Italian paintings in the archducal collection in Brussels.

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David Teniers the Younger
The Blind Leading the Blind

1655 Non visitabile

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Informazioni generali
Artista David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610 - 1690 Brussels)
Titolo The Blind Leading the Blind
Data 1655
Nome oggetto painting
Numero inventario 1160
Materiale e dettagli tecnici
Tecnica oil
Materiale panel
Dimensioni 17 x 23 cm
Iscrizione
Bears inscription on the verso: D. Feti.pi: / 6

Origine

Probably in the artist's studio estate; John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Castle, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire; sale London, 26 June 1886, lot 178-179 (with inv. no. 1161); Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London; Maison Artz, The Hague; Mr. Dr. J.C. Overvoorde (1865-1930), Wassenaar; gift of his widow, J. Overvoorde-Gordon, to the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (inv. no. S 642), 1939; on long-term loan to the Mauritshuis, since 2009