Lot 3
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Adriaen Jansz. van Ostade Haarlem 1610 - 1685

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Description

  • Adriaen jansz. van Ostade
  • peasants in an inn with a couple dancing to the music of a bagpipe player and others drinking and smoking at a table
  • oil on panel, in a 17th Century ebonised cabinet frame

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Berlin, Lepke, 24 February 1914, lot 67 (as by Isack van Ostade);
Anonymous sale, Dordrecht, Mak, 19(?) February 1918, lot 58 (according to a note in the R.K.D.);
Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowski, 24-27 April 1974, lot 177.

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to both Dr Bernhard Schnackenburg and Fred G. Meijer for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs. According to Schnackenburg this is a typical early work from circa 1635.