- Title:
- An Old Woman peeling Pears
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Flemish
- Brief description:
- Structurally and thematically, this picture is similar to one of Teniers's best-known paintings, Kitchen Interior (Mauritshuis, The Hague), which shows a seated woman peeling apples in a cavernous kitchen with a still life of fruit, pots and a panoply of dead game to her right and a dog to her left.In the National Gallery version she sits, a model of demure virtue, alone with her faithful greyhound. The setting is a much more modest outhouse. A pile of gleaming pots and pans forms the still life, and a butter churn sits in the background gloom. Close examination of the painting style suggests that it may be by a follower of Teniers, possibly his brother Juliaen.Several of the pans and some of the furniture, including the butter churn, reappear in another painting in the National Gallery's collection, Teniers’s An Old Peasant caresses a Kitchen Maid in a Stable.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1870-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1870
- Date - latest:
- 1870
- Associated concept:
- work
- Associated concept:
- dogs
- Credit line:
- Bought, 1870
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 4/14/941/109/mid_N-0805-00-000013.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 48.60
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 66.50
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Inscribed
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; Flemish
- Object production date:
- after 1640s
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1640
- Date - latest:
- 1649
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1625-49
- Object production person:
- David Teniers the Younger
- Person's birth date:
- 1610
- Person's death date:
- 1690
- Object production place:
- Netherlands
- Object production place:
- Antwerp
- Other number:
- NG805
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0FO8-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG805
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-03TX-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng2805
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- interiors
- Style:
- baroque
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Flemish School, circa 1600 - circa 1900
- Reference details:
- 277-9
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 658
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- David Teniers the Younger
- Reference details:
- 56
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: Catalogue of Paintings
- Reference details:
- 1.128
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Flemish School, circa 1600-circa 1900
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 264
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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