Horses, a goat and a sheep in a stable with a groom sweeping the floor
Details
Isack van Ostade (1621-1649)
Horses, a goat and a sheep in a stable with a groom sweeping the floor
with signature and the date lower left Isack van Ostade/1645
oil on panel
30.8 x 42.7 cm
in a Dutch 17th century ebonised frame with ovolo to the outer edge, various ripples and mouldings, torus, outset corners, various ripples and mouldings to the sight edge
Provenance
A. Kay; Sale, Christie's London, 11 May 1901, lot 95
Anon. Sale, Dorotheum Vienna, 4 June 1957, lot 79, with ill.
Nilangard collection, inv. no48 (stamp on the reverse)
Anon. Sale, Koller Zýrich, 18-20 September 1996, lot 4A, with ill.
Literature
Hofsteder de Groot, vol. III, 1910, p. 497, no. 132
Lot Essay
According to a note in the RKD S. Gutlangson believed it to be circle of Cornelis Saftleven.