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Description

Adriaen jansz. van Ostade
An old lady at a window holding a pitcher and a glass of ale
oil on panel, extended 0.6 cm. to the right vertical margin

Provenance

Colonel E. L. Bull 1939 (according to an old label on the reverse).

Exhibited

Galerie Hans Bemmann, Dusseldorf, Altermeister Deutchse und Franzozische Kunst des 19 Jahhunderts, 1927.

Catalogue Note

A tentative attribution has been suggested to Nicolaes van Haeften (Gorinchem circa 1663 - 1715 Paris). A picture of this type is listed, as by Ostade but without medium or measurements, by Hofstede de Groot as in the collection of Count Sergei Stroganoff, St Petersburg (see C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the 17th century, London 1910, vol. III, p. 159, cat. no. 59).