Cornelis Dusart (1660-1704)

Details

Cornelis Dusart (1660-1704)

A village kermesse

with signature and the date in the centre (on the fence) A van Ostade 1668
oil on canvas
86.5 x 135.6 cm

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Amsterdam, 8 June 1763, lot 10 (fl.1005 to Fouquet)

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné etc., III, 1910, p. 396, no. 807 (as A. van Ostade)
Glück, no. XLV (as A. van Ostade)
P. Bautier, La Collection Del Monte à Bruxelles, Gazette des Beaux Arts, XVIII, 1928, p. 324 (as A. van Ostade)
A.L. Mayer, Die Sammlung Del Monte in Brüssel, Pantheon, X, October 1929, p. 442 (as A. van Ostade)

Exhibited

The Hague, Koninklijke Kunstzaal Kleykamp, Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen door Oud-Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Meesters, 1932, no. 45 (as A. van Ostade)

Lot Essay

As pointed out by Dr. B. Schnackenburg (oral information) the present lot is to be considered an early work by the artist to be dated to circa 1678, inspired by watercolours by his master Adriaen van Ostade from the 1670's. Compare for example the watercolour of a paddler by a farm in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; see B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade, 1981, I, pp. 124/25, no. 227 and II, fig. 105.
The composition may also be compared with the artist's most celebrated etching dated 1685: "The Village Fair" (Hollstein 16)

We are grateful to Dr. B. Schnackenburg for his help in cataloguing this lot

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