Cornelis Dusart

F. Schwarz, Vienna;

From whom acquired by Oscar Huldschinsky (1846–1931), Berlin, by 1906;

His sale, Berlin, Paul Cassirer & Hugo Helbing, 10 May 1928, lot 23, for 7000 Marks, to 'Klotz' (as Adriaen van Ostade);

Regierungsrat Klotz, Berlin, Grunewald;

Thence by inheritance to Leopold Koppel (1843–1933), Berlin;

With Schaeffer Galleries, New York;

Where acquired by an American private collector, by 1971;

By whom sold ('Property of a Private Collector, New York'), New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1989, lot 91 (as Adriaen van Ostade);

Where acquired by the present owner.

Berlin, Ehemalig Gräflich Redern'schen Palais, Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitglieder des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins, 27 January – 4 March 1906, no. 96 (as Adriaen van Ostade);

New York, National Academy of Design, Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Private Collections, 1988, no. 36 (as Adriaen van Ostade).

W. Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Huldschinsky, Frankfurt 1909, p. 24, no. 20, reproduced, fig. 15 (as Adriaen van Ostade);

C.H. de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. III, London 1910, p. 293, no. 500 (as Adriaen van Ostade);

J.B. Shaw, 'Adrian van Ostade, Exterior of a Cottage', in Old Master Drawings, vol. 3, December 1928, pp. 51–52 (as Adriaen van Ostade and unsigned);

B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Acquarelle, Hamburg 1981, p. 190, (as possibly by Cornelis Dusart, c. 1680; later, in 1987, Schnackenburg accepts the attribution to Adriaen van Ostade);

A.J. Adams, Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Private Collections, exh. cat., National Academy of Design, New York, 1998, p. 101, no. 36, reproduced in colour p. 85 (as Adriaen van Ostade).

We are grateful to Dr Hiltraud Doll for endorsing the attribution to Cornelis Dusart.