Lot 197
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Isaac van Ostade Haarlem 1621-1649

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Isaac van Ostade
  • horsemen halting at an inn, a shepherd driving his flock across a bridge beyond
  • signed and dated centre right on the inn: I.../V. Ostade/164.
  • oil on panel

Provenance

Baron d'Aubigny, Paris;
With F. Kleinberger, Paris;
Adolphe Schloss (1842-1910), Paris, since 1900;
By descent to his wife Mathilde Haas (1858-1938);
By descent to their children, stored at Château de Chambon, near Tulle;
Looted by the Nazis, and transported to Munich,1943;
Collecting point, Munich, no. 34041, 1945;
Returned to the family, 1947;
Their sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 25 May 1949, lot 47;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Drouot, 14 December 1951, lot 52;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 12 June 1956, lot 173.

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné...., vol. III, London 1910, p. 449, no. 32.

Condition

"The following condition report has been provided by Henry Gentle, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. The oak panel has a slight curvature. There is a small unstable vertical split , lower right, bearing old restoration. There is the presence of wood grain coming through the thinly painted sky and some of this has been reduced(visible under U-V light). The edge of the cloud , lower left, has been reinforced. There are some minor retouchings to the foreground. A tonal improvement would be achieved if the discoloured varnish were removed."
"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."

Catalogue Note

Although he spent his early years very much in the footsteps of his teacher and elder brother Adriaen van Ostade, painting mostly peasant interiors, in the 1640s Isaac concentrated almost exclusively on landscapes, particularly those representing peasants halting outside inns or cottages, such as the present work. Other grand examples of this subject are the expansive Travellers before an inn from 1645 in the Mauritshuis, The Hague,1 the Waggoner and other figures halted at an inn from 1646, formerly in the Henle collection,2 and Landscape with Peasants Feeding a Grey Outside a Cottage which features as lot 12 in the Evening session of this sale. The present painting would however appear to precede these works, and may be dated to the first half of the 1640s.

1. Inv. no. 789; see H.R. Hoetink et al., The Royal Picture Gallery. Mauritshuis, Amsterdam/ New York 1985, p. 413, reproduced.
2. Henle sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 December 1997, lot 18.