Isack Jansz. van Ostade (Haarlem 1621-1649)

A covered two-wheeled wagon

Details

Isack Jansz. van Ostade (Haarlem 1621-1649)
A covered two-wheeled wagon
inscribed 'luef'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, brown ink framing lines, watermark posthorn in a shield with W below
5 ½ x 7 1/8 in. (13.8 x 19.5 cm.)
with a copy attributed to Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798)

Provenance

Theodorus van Duysel (d. 1784); Amsterdam, 11 October 1784, lot 587.
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798) (L. 3002-3004), with his inscription 'Willem Schellings f./ h. 5 ½ d/ b. 7 ½ d' (verso); his sale, Amsterdam, 3 March 1800, Kunstboek VV, part of lot 64 ('Twee stuks met Vrachtwaagens; met dito [zwart kryt], door W. Schellings') or 65 ('Drie dito dito, door denzelven'; 5.10 guilders to Kops for lots 63, 64 and 65 together).
Jacobus Johannes Lauwers (1753-1800); van der Schley et al., Amsterdam, 13 December 1802, Kunstboek M, lot 34 ('Een Studie van een Wagen, fiks met dito, door W. Schellinks').
Daniel van Diepen; van der Schley et al., Amsterdam, 8 April 1805, Kunstboek BB, lot 64 ('Een Wagen; met de pen, door W. Schellings'; sold for 2.4 guilders).
Diederik, Baron van Leyden, heer de Vlaardingen (1744-1810); van der Schley et al., Amsterdam, 13 May 1811, Kunstboek U, lot 55 ('Een beladen Wagen, door W. Schellings').
J.C. Pruyssenaer; van der Schley et al., Amsterdam, 27 December 1814, Kunstboek L, lot 57 ('Een Hessekar. Met de pen, door W. Schellings'; 16.5 guilders to Locter).
The artist Jan Hulswit (1766-1822); de Vries et al., Amsterdam, 20 October 1822, Kunstboek G, part of lot 37 ('Twee stuks met Vrachtwagens; met de pen en oostindische inkt, door W. Schellings'; 4.5 guilders to Heemtze, with lot G.36).
Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-1882) (L. 1450); Roos, Muller et al., Amsterdam, 22 May 1883, part of lot 491 ('W. Schellings. 491. Paysages et Ruines - Cinq dessins. Monastère en Italie. – Ruines de l’Abbaye de Rhijnsburgh – Une charrette, etc. A la pierre noire, à la plume, et au lavis de bistre’; 17 guilders to Lannoy).
L.X. Lannoy; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 19 May 1925, lot 662 (as Schellinks).
Anonymous sale; Bom, Amsterdam, 23 November 1926, lot number unknown; where purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena for 18.50 guilders (Inventory book: '239. t. Schellinks boerenwagen').

Literature

B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade: Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Hamburg, 1981, I, no. 560, II, pl. 237.
P. Schatborn and L. van Sloten, Old Drawings, New Names: Rembrandt and his Contemporaries, exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rembrandthuis, 2014, p. 165, under no. 57, fig. 57b, note 5.

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d’un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d’une collection privée d’Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 98, pl. 89 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).

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Lot Essay

Probably dating from around 1640, this is one of three studies of wagons by Ostade in the van Regteren Altena collection. They seem to have been executed from life as simple exercises, and then kept as part of the artist’s stock of images which could be introduced into his paintings. Indeed, the present wagon appears in A stopping place outside an inn, dated 1646 (formerly in the Henle Collection; Sotheby’s, London, 3 December 1997, lot 18; Schatborn and van Sloten, op. cit., p. 165, fig. 57d). The inscription ‘luef’, meaning hood or cover, is in the artist’s own hand and a note in the same handwriting appears on a drawing of a wagon in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, which was formerly attributed to Willem Schellinks (1627-1678) but is evidently part of this series of studies (Schatborn and van Sloten, op. cit., no. 56). The present drawing, like the Rijksmuseum sheet, was traditionally attributed to Schellinks, as noted in Cornelis Ploos van Amstel's inscription on the verso. It is offered here with a close copy by a Dutch 18th-Century hand, possibly that of Ploos van Amstel.

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