Peasants dancing at a village feast

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Jan de Groot (Flushing 1650-1726 Haarlem)
Peasants dancing at a village feast
with inscriptions 'AVO' (recto) and 'A.v.Ostade' (verso)
black lead, pen and dark brown ink, the figures in the background in pen and brown ink, pen and brown ink framing lines, watermark foolscap above 4 and three balls
5 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (136 x 186 mm.)

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. Bernhard Schnackenburg for suggesting the attribution de Groot, a pupil of Adriaen van Ostade, on the basis of a photograph. Dr. Schnackenburg discusses de Groot's oeuvre in his monograph on the Ostade brothers (B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Hamburg, 1981, p. 65).

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