Cornelis Dusart* (1660-1704)

Details

Cornelis Dusart* (1660-1704)

A Village Street with Skittle Players and Merrymakers by an Inn

with inscription 'AV: Ostade'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolor and bodycolor, brown ink framing lines
7½ x 11¾in. (190 x 298mm.)

Provenance

V. Röver (1686-1737), Delft, his inscription 'XXVII/30' (verso)
J. Goll van Franckenstein (L. 2987), his inscription 'N2932' (identifying it as one of the drawings he had purchased from the Röver sale)
H.O. Havemeyer, New York, 1895
with Durand Ruel, New York and Paris
Dr. J.A. Carp
Acquired from the Lock Galleries, New York, May 1955

Literature

B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Hamburg, 1981, no. Z 10, fig. 67, pp. 202 and 277

Lot Essay

Dr. Schnackenburg believes, on the basis of a transparency, that this is an early work by Dusart, when his work was most strongly influenced by Isack van Ostade. He points out that Dusart has based the barn in the background on a study by Isack with C.G. Boerner in 1979, B. Schnackenburg, op. cit., I, p. 199, no.630/U, II, fig. 259