Lot 200
  • 200

Attributed to Adriaen Jansz. van Ostade

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Adriaen jansz. van Ostade
  • The classroom
  • signed and dated lower right: AV ostade 1638 or 39 (AV in ligature)
  • oil on oak panel
  • 18.5 x 24.5 cm

Provenance

A. Hartmann, Münster;
His sale, Paris, Drouot, 10 February 1873, lot 26 for 2,400 Francs (as attributed to Adriaen van Ostade);
Gustave Rothan (1822–90);
His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 29 May 1890, lot 81, for 2,500 Francs, to Baene[?];
Dr Melville Wassermann, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 12 June 1919, lot 25 (as dated 1654);
Anonymous sale, Paris, Galliera, 21 June 1963, lot 7 (as School of Adriaen van Ostade; dated 1654, with a suggested attribution to Bartholomeus Molenaer by Dr S.J. Gudlaugsson);
With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, by 1964.

Exhibited

Vienna, Galerie Sanct Lucas, Gemälde alter Meister-Neuerwerbungen, Winter 1964–65.

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné..., London 1910, vol. III, p. 257, cat. no. 392;
P. Mantz, 'La Galerie de M. Rothan', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. VII/2, 4 April 1873, p. 284.