Peasants outside an inn, smoking and drinking

Name: ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE (Haarlem 1610-1685) AND CORNELIS DUSART (Haarlem 1660-1704)
Brand: Peasants outside an inn, smoking and drinking
Price: 6000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 7,500

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USD 8,000 - USD 12,000

Closed: 28 Jan 2022

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ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE (Haarlem 1610-1685) AND CORNELIS DUSART (Haarlem 1660-1704)

Peasants outside an inn, smoking and drinking

Price Realised USD 7,500

Closed: 28 Jan 2022

Price Realised USD 7,500

Closed: 28 Jan 2022

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ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE (Haarlem 1610-1685) AND CORNELIS DUSART (Haarlem 1660-1704)
Peasants outside an inn, smoking and drinking
with inscriptions ‘[...] -f29-5-/ van ostade’ and ‘Ostade Kabinet Ploos v. Amstel n. 195’ (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, pen and black ink framing line, watermark foolscap
7⁷⁄₈ x 6¹⁄₂ in. (20.2 x 16.5 cm)

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1789), Amsterdam (according to an inscription on the verso); possibly Amsterdam, 3-6 March 1800, possibly album LLL, lot 4 (‘Een boeren Binnenhuis, met vrolyke drinkende lieden; fiks met de pen en O.I. Inkt, door A. van Ostade’).
S.H. de la Sablonière; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 30 June 1891, lot 169 (as by Van Ostade).
William Pitcairn Knowles (1920-1894), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 25-26 June 1895, lot 471 (as by Van Ostade, sold for 50 guilders).

B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade. Isack van Ostade. Zeichnungen und Aquarellen, Gesamtdarstellung mit Werkkatalogen, Hamburg, 1981, I, pp. 40, 61, no. 97, p. 224, under no. F 157, II, pl. 52.

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Lot Essay

This typical drinking scene by Adriaen van Ostade is a particularly interesting example of his works later worked up by his pupil and artistic heir, Cornelis Dusart. Van Ostade focused on the figure group, perhaps only sketching them; the penwork and washes, on the other hand, may all be the work of Dusart. The younger artist used the drawing as the model for the central part of a larger watercolor at the British Museum, probably an early work, in which the number of figures is much larger and the background more extensive (inv. 1910,0212.164; see Schnackenburg, , I, p. 61, no. F 157, fig. 71).
We are grateful to Bernhard Schnackenburg for confirming the attribution of the initial drawing to Adriaen van Ostade on the basis of a photograph.