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]
DeGruyter
Berg (Portland, Oregon, USA)
C. B. Duhrkoop 1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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.
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