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:
| General | Height | 38 cm |
| Width | 38,5 cm | |
| Diameter | 26,5 cm |
Characteristics
| Material | olieverf op paneel (schildermateriaal) |
| Technique | geschilderd |
| Colour | meerkleuren |
| Other materials | hout |
| Traces of use | geen |
Production
| Contintent | Europa |
| Region International | West-Europa |
| Country | België |
| Region National | Antwerpen (provincie) |
| City | Antwerpen |
| Maker #1 | David Teniers |
| Contintent | Europa |
| Region International | West-Europa |
| Country | België |
| Region National | Antwerpen (provincie) |
| City | Antwerpen |
| Maker #2 | Ferdinand 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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