Lot Essay
A variant is in the Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna.
Peasants merrymaking in a Barn
Details
Adriaen Jansz. van Ostade
Peasants merrymaking in a Barn
signed and dated 'AV (linked) ostaden 1632 (lower left)
oil on panel
16¼ x 13 3/8in. (41.3 x 34cm.)
Peasants merrymaking in a Barn
signed and dated 'AV (linked) ostaden 1632 (lower left)
oil on panel
16¼ x 13 3/8in. (41.3 x 34cm.)
Provenance
with Delahante.
Sir Abraham Hume and by descent to
John William Spencer, 2nd Earl Brownlow (d. 1867), Belton House, Grantham, and by inheritance to
The Lord Brownlow, 7th Baron, and the Trustees of the Brownlow Chattels Settlement; Christie's, 6 April 1984, lot 80 (#14,000).
Sir Abraham Hume and by descent to
John William Spencer, 2nd Earl Brownlow (d. 1867), Belton House, Grantham, and by inheritance to
The Lord Brownlow, 7th Baron, and the Trustees of the Brownlow Chattels Settlement; Christie's, 6 April 1984, lot 80 (#14,000).
Literature
Sir A. Hume, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures, 1824, no. 119.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., III, London, 1912, p. 313, no. 559.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., III, London, 1912, p. 313, no. 559.
Exhibited
London, British Institution, 1824, no. 106.