Isack van Ostade

估價

30,000 - 40,000 USD

招標截止

描述

Isack van Ostade
A peasant family outside a hovel
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk;
bears pencil inscription, verso: Ostade

來源

C.E. Duits;
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 6 November 2001 (purchased by the present owner)

展覽

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, European Master Drawings Unveiled, 2002, no. 59

拍品資料及來源

As Dr. Bernhard Schnackenburg kindly confirmed at the time of the 2001 sale, this is an early work by Isack, probably executed before 1640. Stylistically comparable drawings are in Berlin, Leiden and various private collections.¹ Unlike his elder brother Adriaen, Isack van Ostade died very young, at the age of only twenty eight, and as a result his drawings are far rarer. Indeed, substantial compositions like this hardly ever come on the market.

^1. B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Hamburg 1981, nos. 405-411