Adriaen van Ostade Haarlem 1610-1685

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Description

Adriaen van Ostade
Market stalls, with a fisherman in the foreground
oil on panel

Provenance

In the family of the present owner since the 1920s.

Exhibited

York, Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, nineteenth century, as Cornelis Dusart, where lent by Thompson(?).

Catalogue Note

This is a late work by Ostade, closely comparable to his Fishwife in Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. no. 306. Both works are dominated by a half-length figure in the foreground, dressed in richly coloured red and black clothing with a white collar, and recede from right to left into similarly rendered background figures. Ostade's prototype for both works is his 1672 The Fish Stall in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. A3246, which employs a similar construction but uses a far more restrained palette.

We are grateful to both Mr. Fred G. Meijer and to Dr. Bernhard Schnackenburg for independently indentifying this as a late work by Adriaen van Ostade.