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Landscape with Peasants Dancing

Landscape with Peasants Dancing

c. 1645–50
(Flemish, 1610–1690)
Flanders
oil on wood
Framed: 69 x 96.5 x 8 cm (27 3/16 x 38 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 49 x 78 cm (19 5/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust 1996.271
Location: 213 Dutch Painting

Did You Know?

This painting combines two of David Teniers's specialties: landscape and scenes of country life.

Description

Before a rustic inn, a group of villagers converse, embrace, and dance to a bagpiper’s tune. Teniers was one of many Netherlandish artists whose paintings celebrate the joys of country life. These delicately painted works were created primarily for an elite urban audience nostalgic for a simpler existence.
  • 1996-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
    1962-1996
    Frances W. Ingalls [1926-1996], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1949-1962
    Jane Taft Ingalls [1874-1962], Cleveland, OH, by descent to her daughter-in-law, Frances W. Ingalls
    1949
    Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to Jane Taft Ingalls
    1946-1949
    Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], East Barnard, VT, sold to Rosenberg & Stiebel
    1945-1946
    In possession of the United States Forces in Austria (USFA), restituted to Louis de Rothschild
    1938-1945
    In possession of the Nazis; selected by Hitler for the Führermuseum, Linz
    Probably 1911-1938
    Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], Vienna, confiscated by the Nazis
    Probably until 1911
    Baron Albert de Rothschild [1844- 1911], Vienna, by descent to his son, Baron Louis de Rothschild
    Provenance Footnotes
    1 The painting was recovered by the Allies at the Alt Ausee salt mine, where it had been hidden by the Nazis, and then sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point (Alt Aussee shipment no. 2777), arriving on July 13, 1945 and assigned Munich number 4040 (4040/Aussee 2777.  3723 Aussee 2461 - 4136 Aussee 2873.  Records Relating to Property Accessions, compiled 1945 – 1949.  Records Concerning the Central Collecting Points ("Ardelia Hall Collection"): Munich Central Collecting Point, 1945-1951, Record Group 260.  National Archives Identifier 3725277.  M1946, Roll 173, page 1.  Fold3.com, http://www.fold3.com/image/312557487/, retrieved January 22, 2015).  According to the records of the Collecting Point and secondary sources, the painting, titled “Peasants Inn with Landscape,” was repatriated to Austria on May 16, 1946, and then restituted to Louis de Rothschild on September 28 of that year.
    2 Confiscated by the Nazis in 1938 from Louis de Rothschild’s collection in Vienna, this painting was selected by Hitler to be part of his planned Führermuseum in Linz.  It appears as no. 17, Landschaft mit Bauerntanz (49:78), in Album II of Hitler’s Gemäldegalerie Linz Album, which catalogued the works intended for the museum. It is also listed as seized from Louis de Rothschild (inv. LR 3) in the Vorschlag zur Verteilung der in Wien beschlagnahmte Gemälde: Für das Kunstmuseum in Linz of October 20, 1939, and the Verzeichnis der für Linz in Aussicht genommenen Gemälde of July 31, 1940, both prepared by Hans Posse, special envoy for the Linz Museum (Vorschlag zur Verteilung der in Wien beschlagnahmte Gemälde: Für das Kunstmuseum in Linz October 20, 1939. Linz Museum: Consolidated Interrogation Report (CIR) No. 4 (Attachments 56-82). Restitution Research Records. Records of the U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II, Record Group 260. National Archives Identifier 3725274. M1946, Roll 139, page 71. Fold3.com, http://www.fold3.com/image/#283755710, retrieved July 15, 2013, and Verzeichnis der für Linz in Aussicht genommenen Gemälde July 31, 1940. Linz Museum: Consolidated Interrogation Report (CIR) No. 4 (Attachments 56-82). Restitution Research Records. Records of the U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II, Record Group 260. National Archives Identifier 3725274. M1946, Roll 139, page 83. Fold3.com, http://www.fold3.com/image/#283755722, retrieved July 15, 2013).  The painting was stored at the monastery in Kremsmünster (Felicitas Kunth, Die Rothschild'schen Gemäldesammlungen in Wien, 2006) and then moved to the salt mine at Alt Aussee toward the end of the war.  
  • Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file.
    Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file.
    Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file.
    Datenbank zum Central Collecting Point München, Deutsches Historisches Museum, accessed 2013, http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/ccp/dhm_ccp.php?seite=6&fld_1=4040&fld_3=&auswahl=6&fld_4=&fld_4a=&fld_5=&fld_6=&fld_7=&fld_8=&fld_9=&fld_10=&suchen=Suchen.
    Kunth, Felicitas. Die Rothschild'schen Gemäldesammlungen in Wien. Wien: Böhlau, 2006.
    Lillie, Sophie. Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens. Wien: Czernin, 2003.
    Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file.
    Datenbank zum Central Collecting Point München, Deutsches Historisches Museum, accessed 2013, http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/ccp/dhm_ccp.php?seite=6&fld_1=4040&fld_3=&auswahl=6&fld_4=&fld_4a=&fld_5=&fld_6=&fld_7=&fld_8=&fld_9=&fld_10=&suchen=Suchen
    Linzer Sammlung – Datenbank, Deutsches Historisches Museum, accessed 2013, http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/linzdb/indexe.html.
    Kunth, Felicitas. Die Rothschild'schen Gemäldesammlungen in Wien. Wien: Böhlau, 2006.
    Lillie, Sophie. Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens. Wien: Czernin, 2003.
    Schwarz, Birgit. Hitlers Museum: die Fotoalben Gemäldegalerie Linz : Dokumente zum "Führermuseum". Wien: Böhlau, 2004.
    Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file.
    Datenbank zum Central Collecting Point München, Deutsches Historisches Museum, accessed 2013, http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/ccp/dhm_ccp.php?seite=6&fld_1=4040&fld_3=&auswahl=6&fld_4=&fld_4a=&fld_5=&fld_6=&fld_7=&fld_8=&fld_9=&fld_10=&suchen=Suchen
    Linzer Sammlung – Datenbank, Deutsches Historisches Museum, accessed 2013, http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/linzdb/indexe.html.
    Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file
    Kunth, Felicitas. Die Rothschild'schen Gemäldesammlungen in Wien. Wien: Böhlau, 2006.
    Lillie, Sophie. Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens. Wien: Czernin, 2003.
    Schwarz, Birgit. Hitlers Museum: die Fotoalben Gemäldegalerie Linz : Dokumente zum "Führermuseum". Wien: Böhlau, 2004.
    Datenbank zum Central Collecting Point München, Deutsches Historisches Museum, accessed 2013, http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/ccp/dhm_ccp.php?seite=6&fld_1=4040&fld_3=&auswahl=6&fld_4=&fld_4a=&fld_5=&fld_6=&fld_7=&fld_8=&fld_9=&fld_10=&suchen=Suchen.
    Linzer Sammlung – Datenbank, Deutsches Historisches Museum, accessed 2013, http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/linzdb/indexe.html.
    Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Annual Report, 1996. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1996. Mentioned: p. 48; reproduced: p; 36
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