Isaac van Ostade (Haarlem 1621-1649)

A four-wheeled wagon

Details

Isaac van Ostade (Haarlem 1621-1649)
A four-wheeled wagon
black chalk, pen and brown and black ink, brown wash, black chalk framing lines, fragmentary watermark crest
5¼ x 6 3/8 in. (13.4 x 16.1 cm.)

Provenance

By descent to I.Q. van Regteren Altena (according to Giltaj, 1976-77).

Literature

J. Giltaj, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, exhib. cat. Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, 1976-77, p. 57, note 4, under no. 98.
B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade: Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Hamburg,, 1981, I, no. 522, II, pl. 236.
L. van Sloten, in Old Drawings, New Names: Rembrandt and his Contemporaries, exhib. cat. Amsterdam, Rembrandthuis, 2014, p. 165, note 1, under no. 57.

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Lot Essay

Five studies of wagon by Isaac van Ostade are today known, one is in the Rijskmuseum (van Sloten, op. cit., no. 57), and the other three were in the van Regteren Altena collection: the present one, one sold at Christie's, London, 10 July 2014, lot 51, and one which will be offered in May 2015 in Amsterdam. These four sheets and a drawing of knife-grinder's wheel barrow in the Fondation Custodia, Paris (Schnackenburg, op. cit., no. 563) suggest that Isaac drew from life a number of such vehicles as exercises, and then kept them as part of a stock he could later use in his paintings.

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