Lot 217
217
Circle of Isaac van Ostade (Haarlem 1621-1649)
Circle of Isaac van Ostade (Haarlem 1621-1649)

A market scene with the slaughter of a pig

Details
Circle of Isaac van Ostade (Haarlem 1621-1649)
A market scene with the slaughter of a pig
with inscription 'Ostade'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines
17.6 x 34.4 cm.
Provenance
A. Benois, Leningrad.
with Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963).
Literature
M.D. Henkel, 'Holländische Zeichnungen in Brüssel', Pantheon, XXI, 1938, p. 58, illustrated (as Adriaen van Ostade).
M.D. Henkel, 'Hollandsche teekeningen in Brussel', Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten, 15, 1938-II, p. 37, pl. 3 (as Adriaen van Ostade).
E. Trautscholdt, 'Über Adriaen van Ostade als Zeichner', Festschrift Friedrich Winkler, Berlin, 1959, p. 288, note 10 (as Adriaen van Ostade).
B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade. Zeichnungen und Aquarellen, Hamburg, 1981, no. F 16, pl. 28 (as Cornelis Dusart).
Exhibited
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Dessins hollandais de Jérôme Bosch à Rembrandt, 1937-38, no. 113, pl. LXXI (as Adriaen van Ostade; catalogue by F. Schmidt-Degener).
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Meesterwerken uit vier eeuwen 1400-1800, 1938, no. 306, pl. 272 (as Adriaen van Ostade; catalogue by D. Hannema).
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 95, pl. 91 (as Adriaen van Ostade; catalogue by J. Giltaij).

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Lot Essay

The traditional attribution to Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) was rejected by Schnackenburg (op. cit., p. 208, F 16). He suggested that the drawing could have been by Cornelis Dusart (1660-1704) after a lost drawing by Isaac, pointing to the characteristic handling of the pen on the tree and the horse and the brown wash. More recently however, Susan Anderson, after examining the original, rejected the attribution to Dusart while not ruling out that it is a 17th Century copy after a lost drawing by Isaac van Ostade.

We are grateful to Dr. Susan Anderson for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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