Museum number:

APM 20.500

Subcollection:

prenten en schilderijen

Title:

oil painting

Keyword:

smoking and dicing monkeys

Description:

Oil painting on a circular panel depicting a group of six sitting dressed monkeys playing dice, playing cards and smoking, on the ground between them a brazier, chips and paper with tobacco, on the right two packs of playing cards, the right monkey drinking from a glass holding a jug in the left hand. Wooden octagonal frame with painted geometric corner motifs in seventeenth-century style. Backside label exhibition Kunsthal and others.

Date:

Period 1645 - 1675


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight38 cm
Width38,5 cm
Diameter26,5 cm
Characteristics
Materialolieverf op paneel (schildermateriaal)
Techniquegeschilderd
Colourmeerkleuren
Other materialshout
Traces of use geen
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryBelgië
Region NationalAntwerpen (provincie)
CityAntwerpen
Maker #1David Teniers
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryBelgië
Region NationalAntwerpen (provincie)
CityAntwerpen
Maker #2Ferdinand Apshoven
Acquisition
Year 2011
Provenance Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, c. 1985-2011, nr DD127 (oud nr CC067)
Nederland, veiling, c. 1985
Comments
Volgens Kimm geschilderd door Ferdinand Apshoven (1630-1694) of zijn broer Thomas Apshoven (1622-1665), beiden leerlingen van Teniers de Jonge.
Afgebeeld in: Art Enjoy, nr 2, 1994, p 8. Dit exemplaar.
Literature
T. Helperi Kimm (Tiemen Helperi Kimm), Il fumo nella mente, Piccola storia del tabacco nelle immagini del Museo Nyemeyer. Smoking, rivista trimestrale della pipa e del sigaro, 3/3. p 25. Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: "Scimmie fumanti", di Thomas Apshoven (Anversa 1622-1665), allievo di David Teniers che faceva una completa serie di quadri delle scimmie che se trovano attualmente nel Prado di Madrid.
Olivier Martiaux, Pipes en terre de Saint-Omer et des Hauts-de-France au XIXème siècle. Toulouse, 2025. p 110, gravure 13. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, c. 1985-2010, zolder.
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, tentoonstelling "Vier eeuwen roken in de kunst", 13 december 2003 - 14 februari 2004.
Zug (Zwitserland), tentoonstelling "Das Niemeyer Tabak Museum", 30 augustus 1994 - 3 november 1994.

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