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SEIT 1982
KUNST
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LE CLAIRE
SEIT 1982
KUNST
ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE
1610 - Haarlem - 1685
Two Studies of Men Cutting Up a Pig
Pen and brown ink with watercolour and gouache; brown ink framing lines.
Monogrammed: A v. O.
Each ca. 64 x 37 mm
PROVENANCE: William Esdaile, London (Lugt 2617)
LITERATURE: Bernhard Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle,
Hamburg 1981, I, nos. 303 and 304, repr. in II, p.141.
Adriaen van Ostade was not only a very productive painter of scenes from everyday life but also a
great draughtsman. Apart from drawings in pen or chalk, he also made elaborate coloured studies.
The present two sheets have been dated by Schnackenburg [op. cit] to the late period after 1670
belonging to a large group of similar figures for example in Frankfurt 1 and London. 2 They were
executed for sale or used as presents. According to Arnold Houbraken, Ostade’s late preoccupation
with the medium came about as a result of the French invasion of 1672. Fearing the advancing French
armies, Adriaen took refuge in the house of the Amsterdam collector Constantijn Sennepart. There,
away from his studio, he took up watercolour painting. 3
1 Bernhard Schnackenburg, [op. cit.], nos. 298-301, and 302.
2 Ibid., nos. 305-15.
3 Arnold Houbraken, De Groote Schouburgh der Nerderlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen, Amsterdam 1719-21, I, p.347.
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