Group of Peasants and a Violinist before a Tavern

Isack van Ostade Dutch, 1621-1649

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About the Artwork

Group of Peasants and a Violinist before a Tavern

between 17th and 18th century

Isack van Ostade

1621-1649

Dutch

Unknown

Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and black chalk, heightened with white on blue laid paper

Sheet: 8 3/4 × 7 inches (22.2 × 17.8 cm)

Drawings

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

38.16

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

Inscribed, in black chalk, lower left, verso: 112 | L Inscribed, in black chalk, lower center, verso: A. v. Ostade 410[?] [and over it in pencil] 80

Watermark: S. G.

Provenance

June 25th, 1895, W. P. Knowles (Roterdam and Wiesbaden, Germany) [blue collector's mark [L. 2643] on verso at lower left, WPK] Muller sale (Amsterdam, Netherlands), no. 477 [as A. van Ostade]

May 4, 1905, Hauser, Karlsruhe sale (Leipzig, Germany), no. 460 [as A. van Ostade]

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Berg (Portland, Oregon, USA)

C. B. Duhrkoop 1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Lesley, Parker. "The Growth of the Collection of Drawings." Bulletin of the DIA 18, 7 (April 1939): pp. 3-6. [as Issac van Ostade]

Schnackenburg, Bernhard. Adraien van Ostade, Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. 2 vols. Hamburg, 1981.

Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 130, no. A7 (ill.).

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school of Isack van Ostade, Group of Peasants and a Violinist before a Tavern, between 17th and 18th century, pen and brown ink, gray wash, and black chalk, heightened with white on blue laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 38.16.

Group of Peasants and a Violinist before a Tavern
Group of Peasants and a Violinist before a Tavern