Merrymaking around a fire in a tavern

Details

Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem 1660-1704)
Merrymaking around a fire in a tavern
with inscription 'AV:Ostade' (on the bench in the foreground)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, watermark Arms of Amsterdam with P below, brown ink framing lines
8 x 11½ in. (20.4 x 29.1 cm.)

Provenance

Dr. J.A. Bennet.
Johann Anton Gottlob Weigel, Leipzig;
Rudolph Weigel.
W. Pitcairn Knowles (L. 2643) (verso); Amsterdam, Muller, 25-26 June 1895, lot 469 (as A. van Ostade; f. 315 to Muller).
A.W.M. Mensing; Muller, Amsterdam, 27-29 April 1937, lot 505, illus. (as A. van Ostade).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 November 1983, lot 48, pl. 16.

Literature

J.A.G. Weigel, Aehrenlese auf dem Felde der Kunst. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung von Originalhandzeichnungen und Nadelarbeiten der Maler. Kupferstichen und in Holz geschnittenen Werken, Leipzig, 1836-45, p. 11, no. 57 (as A. van Ostade).
J.A.G. Weigel, Handzeichnungen Berühmter Meister aus der Weigelschen Kunstsammlung in treuen in Kupfer gestochen, Nachbildungen herausgegeben vom besitzer derselben Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig, 1854-61, no. XXX, repr. (as A. van Ostade).

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Lot Essay

This sheet was executed around 1685. Dusart also painted a similar composition on panel - with fewer figures in the same interior - which was offered at Christie's, New York, 19 May 1993, lot 24.
The inscription on the drawing was probably done by a later hand, as Dusart would often inscribe his homage drawings with both his name ('Cornelis Dusart fecit.') and Ostade's ('AvOstade pinx.').
We are grateful to Dr. Susan Anderson for confirming the attribution to Dusart and providing us with additional information about this drawing. We are also grateful to Berhnard Schnackenburg for confirming the attribution to Dusart.

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