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Lot Essay
When this drawing was sold at auction in 1975 as Circle of Jan van de Velde, I.Q. van Regteren Altena quickly recognized it as by Isaac van Ostade as he already owned two similar works by the artist showing wagons (see Christie's, London, 10 July 2014, lot 51 and Christie's, Amsterdam, 10 December 2014, lot 199). These drawings (a fourth is in the Rijksmuseum; van Sloten, op. cit., no. 57) probably date from around 1640 and seem to have been executed from life as simple exercises, and then kept as part of the artist's stock of images which could be introduced into his paintings.
The present drawing probably shows the same wagon, although seen from a different point of view, as the one represented in the sheet sold at Christie's, London, 10 July 2014, lot 51, also from the van Regteren Altena collection. The latter sheet was used in A stopping place outside a inn, a painting dated 1646 formerly in the Henle collection (Sotheby's, London 3 December 1997, lot 18).
The present drawing probably shows the same wagon, although seen from a different point of view, as the one represented in the sheet sold at Christie's, London, 10 July 2014, lot 51, also from the van Regteren Altena collection. The latter sheet was used in A stopping place outside a inn, a painting dated 1646 formerly in the Henle collection (Sotheby's, London 3 December 1997, lot 18).