Isaac van Ostade (1621-1649)

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Isaac van Ostade (1621-1649)

A Winter Landscape with woodgatherers pushing a sledge on the ice, a farmer leading his horse-drawn sledge up a ramp towards a barn, onlookers on a bridge beyond, a woman selling apples from a sledge nearby

indistinctly signed lower left Isack(strengthened)vanOstade, oil on panel
37.1 x 33.9 cm

Provenance

M. Wasserman, Paris
with F. Kleinberger, Paris
A. de Ridder, Schönberg; Sale, Georges Petit Paris, 8 June 1924, lot 50, with ill.
with J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1932

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raissoné etc., III, 1910, p. 554, no. 287
W. Bode, Die Gemäldegalerie des Herrn A. de Ridder in seiner Villa zu Schönberg bei Cronberg in Taunus, 1910, p. 34, with ill. and 1913, pl. 45

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Tentoonstelling van Hollandsche Winterlandschappen uit de 17de eeuw, 6-29 February 1932, no. 69, with ill.
Delft, Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof, Kersttentoonstelling, Nederlandse meesters uit particulier bezit, 21 December 1952-1 February 1953, no. 56

Lot Essay

As pointed out by Peter Sutton, Masters of 17th Century Dutch Landscape Painting, 1987/88, p. 392, the artist's winter landscapes include both larger canvases in the tonal manner inspired by Jan van Goyen and scenes of smaller format on panel which are characterised by a lighter overall tonality, a more delicate touch and stronger local colour. The present lot belongs to this last group which dates from 1645 onwards. It is to be compared with the picture in the Gemäldegalerie Dresden (see Katalog der ausgestellten Werke, 1992, p. 288, no. 1491, with ill.).

The motif of the horse drawing the sledge up a ramp was a favourite one of Isaac and also occurs in his winter landscape in the Louvre (P. Sutton, op.cit., p. 391, no. 63, with ill.)

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