A herdsman playing the shawn while herding his flock- David Teniers II

Oil on canvas
Joined with a certificate of Margret Klinge, dated 7/11/93.
Provenance: Xavier Goyet 2011.

David Teniers II was a Flemish baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman and miniaturist painter. Teniers was known as a hard worker who was extremely prolific. About two thousand paintings are thought to have been painted by the artist. He was extremely versatile and tried his hand at all the genres then practiced in Flanders including history, genre, landscape, portrait and still life. In the 1660s Teniers started to paint pastoral scenes. It is likely that the increased prominence of rural life and nature in his work of that period was connected to his 1662 purchase of Drij Toren, a country house in Perk in which he maintained a studio.