id: 159501 accession number: 1996.271 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.271 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:30.815000 Landscape with Peasants Dancing, c. 1645–50. David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust 1996.271 title: Landscape with Peasants Dancing title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1645–50 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1655 current location: 213 Dutch Painting creditline: Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust copyright: --- culture: Flanders technique: oil on wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690) - artist --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1996- footnotes: citations: Frances W. Ingalls [1926-1996], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1962-1996 footnotes: citations: Jane Taft Ingalls [1874-1962], Cleveland, OH, by descent to her daughter-in-law, Frances W. Ingalls date: 1949-1962 footnotes: citations: Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to Jane Taft Ingalls date: 1949 footnotes: citations: Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], East Barnard, VT, sold to Rosenberg & Stiebel date: 1946-1949 footnotes: citations: In possession of the United States Forces in Austria (USFA), restituted to Louis de Rothschild date: 1945-1946 footnotes: *
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.
citations: In possession of the Nazis; selected by Hitler for the Führermuseum, Linz date: 1938-1945 footnotes: *
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.  
citations: Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], Vienna, confiscated by the Nazis date: Probably 1911-1938 footnotes: citations: Baron Albert de Rothschild [1844- 1911], Vienna, by descent to his son, Baron Louis de Rothschild date: Probably until 1911 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: 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. page number: url: Kunth, Felicitas. Die Rothschild'schen Gemäldesammlungen in Wien. Wien: Böhlau, 2006. page number: url: Lillie, Sophie. Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens. Wien: Czernin, 2003. page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: 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 page number: url: Linzer Sammlung – Datenbank, Deutsches Historisches Museum, accessed 2013, http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/linzdb/indexe.html. page number: url: Kunth, Felicitas. Die Rothschild'schen Gemäldesammlungen in Wien. Wien: Böhlau, 2006. page number: url: Lillie, Sophie. Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens. Wien: Czernin, 2003. page number: url: Schwarz, Birgit. Hitlers Museum: die Fotoalben Gemäldegalerie Linz : Dokumente zum "Führermuseum". Wien: Böhlau, 2004. page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: 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 page number: url: Linzer Sammlung – Datenbank, Deutsches Historisches Museum, accessed 2013, http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/linzdb/indexe.html. page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file page number: url: Kunth, Felicitas. Die Rothschild'schen Gemäldesammlungen in Wien. Wien: Böhlau, 2006. page number: url: Lillie, Sophie. Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens. Wien: Czernin, 2003. page number: url: Schwarz, Birgit. Hitlers Museum: die Fotoalben Gemäldegalerie Linz : Dokumente zum "Führermuseum". Wien: Böhlau, 2004. page number: url: 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. page number: url: Linzer Sammlung – Datenbank, Deutsches Historisches Museum, accessed 2013, http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/linzdb/indexe.html. page number: url: Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Annual Report, 1996. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1996. page number: Mentioned: p. 48; reproduced: p; 36 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.271/1996.271_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.271/1996.271_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.271/1996.271_full.tif