David teniers the younger biography definition

Rubens had been a witness at Teniers' wedding, and from that year or perhaps a little earlier his influence is marked. The brown sauce of Brouwer pretty well disappears from Teniers' palette, his pictures are still tonal rather than colourful, but the colour tone is subtly achieved through a harmony of many hues and tints.

Rubens, in his final delicate style, had abandoned his old frank colour in favour of a magic which is able to give his warm neutrals a suggestion of every sort of colour. His opalescences were inimitable, but Teniers intelligently grasped the principle behind them and applied it in his own cautious fashion.

The famous kermesses represent this new open-air phase most strikingly.

It is a problem of giving to fifty or so tiny figures sufficient individual character without losing the animation of the dance, of studying the effect of light on crumbling plastered walls and on thatched roofs, of representing the looming of cri