Isack van Ostade Haarlem 1621 - 1649

Dr August Sträter (L.787);
by whom sold, Stuttgart, Gutekunst, 10 May 1898, lot 1164 (as Adriaen van Ostade);
anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 3 May 1976, lot 227 (as Adriaen van Ostade);
F.W.A. Knight,
his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 29 October 1979, lot 44 (as Adriaen van Ostade, to C.G. Boerner);
with C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1979  

B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack von Ostade, Zeichnungen und Aquarellen, 2 vols., Hamburg 1981, vol. I, p. 199, cat. no. 630/U, p. 202 under cat. no. Z 10, reproduced vol. II, plate 259 (as Isack van Ostade, reworked by another hand)

Schnackenburg (loc. cit.) describes this drawing as one of a group of works in which the underlying sketch in pencil or black chalk is by Isack van Ostade, and the penwork by another hand.  In some cases, though not here, Schnackenburg identifies this second hand as Cornelis Dusart.  The drawing did, however provide the basis for the background buildings in a larger, finished watercolour, formerly in the Carp collection, Helmond, which Schnackenburg attributes to the young Dusart (see Schnackenburg, op. cit., p. 202, cat. no. Z 10), so the possibility should certainly be seriously considered that if there was indeed a second hand involved in the making of this drawing, it actually was Dusart.

Sold in a fine, period wooden frame.