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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2022.12
People
Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch (Haarlem 1610 - 1685 Haarlem)
Title
Peasants in an Interior
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361330

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and gray wash over black chalk; two overlapping rectangles in brown ink
Dimensions
9.9 × 9.8 cm (3 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, brown ink:
    =IIX =Ae=11
  • inscription: verso, upper left: ostade
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: [illegible text]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ch. A. de Burlet, Berlin. [C. B. Boerner, Leipzig]. E. Trautscholt. Private collection, Germany. [C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1983

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2022
Object Number
3.2022.12
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Versteigerungskatalog, auct. cat., C. G. Boerner (Leipzig, November 11, 1930), p. 87, under lot no. 773
  • Eduard Trautscholdt, "Über Adriaen van Ostade als Zeichner", Festschrift Friedrich Winkler, Gebr. Mann Verlag (Berlin, 1959), p. 294, note 27, fig. 7
  • Bernhard Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle (Hamburg, Germany, 1981), vol. 1, pp. 135-136, cat. no. 273, vol. 2, p. 129, repr.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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