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David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels) Le déjeuner au jambon signed and dated 'DAVID TENIERS · FEC · / Ano 1648' (lower left), and dated '1648' (upper centre, on the drawing) oil on copper 25 x 33 5/8 in. (63.5 x 85.3 cm.) Provenance Prince Philippe François de Rubempré (1669-1742), Brussels; his sale (†), P. de Bast, Brussels, 11 April 1765, lot 47 (2,600 florins to the following), Pierre François Bazan (1723-1797); Joullain and Boileau, Paris, 1 July 1765 (=1st day), lot 2, when acquired by the following, Pierre Paul Louis Randon de Boisset (1708-1776); Paris; his sale (†), Pierre Rémy et Claude-François-Julliot, Paris, 27 February 1777, lot 60 (19,999 francs to Lebrun). François-Antoine Robit (1752-1815), Paris; his sale (†), Paillet Delaroche, Paris, 11 May 1801, lot 171, erroneously catalogued as on panel (17,000 francs to Desmarais). Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, duc de Berry (1778-1820), Galerie du Palais de l'Elysée, and by inheritance to his wife, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry (1798-1870); Charles Paillet, Hôtel Galliffet, Paris, 4 April 1837 (=1st day), lot 8 (24,500 francs to the following), Prince Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidoff (1813-1870), Galerie de San Donato, Florence; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 April 1868, lot 16 (77,000 francs to the following), Baron Florentin-Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Paris. Mary Drey, Munich, before 1938; Stored with Julius Böhler, Munich; Given to the 'Staatskommissar die Betreuung der Juden', Munich, by the above, February 1946; Transferred to the Central Collecting Point, Munich, November 1946; Returned to Mary Drey, Chicago, June 1948. Rothschild collection.