Adriaen van Ostade

Possibly Christianus Johannes Nieuwenhuys (1799–1883), Brussels, London;

Possibly by whom sold, London, Christie’s, 10 May 1833, lot 105, for £160.0s.0d to White for Mackintosh;

With Douwes, Amsterdam, before 1929;

Dr Carl Thürling (1887–1955), Amsterdam and Berlin, by 1929;

From whom acquired by Carl Hagen (1856–1938), by c. 1930 until 1938;

With D. Katz, Dieren, The Netherlands, 1937–38 ;

With Schaeffer Gallery, New York, 1939 until c. 1948;

Sydney J. Lamon (1897–1973), New York;

By whose executors sold ('Sold by the order of the Executors of the Estate of the late Sydney J. Lamon of New York City'), London, Christie’s, 29 June 1973, lot 28, for 26,000 guineas, to Agnew;

With Agnew & Sons, London, 1973;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 18 April 1985, lot 15, for £70,000;

Anonymous sale ('From a Private Collection'), New York, Christie’s, 11 January 1989, lot 204, for $93,000;

With Newhouse Galleries, New York;

With Verner Amell, London, 1990 (their label on the reverse);

Private collection, The Netherlands, by 1994;

This lot is offered following a settlement agreement between the consignor and the community of heirs of Carl Hagen.

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tentoonstelling van oude kunst door de Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, 1929–30, no. 107 (as on loan from a private collection through Douwes);

Amsterdam, Firma D. Katz, Tentoonstelling van 16de en 17de eeuwsche Hollandsche en Vlaamsche schilderijen, 7 May – 4 June 1938, no. 57;

Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Dutch painting in the seventeenth century, December 1938 – January 1939, pl. 35 (lent by Katz);

New York, Schaeffer Galleries, Dutch painting: masterpieces of the 17th century, 3 February – 15 March 1939, no. 10 (lent by Katz);

Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 17th-Century Dutch Masterpieces, 1942, no. 9 (lent by Schaeffer Gallery).

Possibly C.J. Nieuwenhuys, A review of the lives and works of some of the most eminent painters, London 1834, p. 170, no. 41;

Possibly A. Renmont, in Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände, 30, 1836, p. 168;

Possibly T. Gaederz, Adrian van Ostade: Sein Leben und seine Kunst, Lübeck 1869, p. 31;

Possibly G.K. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Lithographen, Formschneider, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter etc, Linz am Donau 1904–11, vol. 11, p. 510;

Catalogus van de tentoonstelling van oude kunst door de Vereeniging van handelaren in oude kunst in Nederland in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, exh. cat., Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1929, p. 31, no. 107;

Tentoonstelling van 16de en 17de eeuwsche Hollandsche en Vlaamsche schilderijen, exh. cat., D. Katz, Amsterdam, p. 18, no. 57, reproduced;

W. Stechow, Dutch painting in the seventeenth century, exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1938, n.p., no. 35, reproduced pl. 35;

A. Frankfurter, '17 pictures of the XVII Century. Important Dutch Painting from Holland: A Benefit Show', in The Art News, New York 1939, vol. XXXVII, no. 19, 4 February 1939, pp. 10 and 21, reproduced;

P. Crum (ed.), 17th-Century Dutch Masterpieces, exh. cat., Michigan 1942, n.p., no. 9.