Study of Seven Peasants, 1640s

  • Isack van Ostade, Dutch, 1621-1649

Pen and brown ink and gray wash over graphite on buff laid paper

  • Sheet: 5 × 7 3/8 inches (12.7 × 18.7 cm)

Gift of P. De Boer

37.24

Watermark: FD

Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower right: A [VO?; indecipherable, cut off]

E. Wauters (Paris, France) [black collector's mark [L. 911] on recto at lower right] June 15-16, 1926, Muller & Cie (Amsterdam, Netherlands) sale, no. 130 [as Adriaen van Ostade]

January 1929, R.W. P. de Vries (Amsterdam, Netherlands) sale, no. 181, [as Adriaenvan Ostade]

P. de Boer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lees, Frederic. The Art of the Great Masters as Exemplfied By Drawings in the Collection of Emile Wauters, Membre de l'Academie Royale de Belgique. London, 1913, p. 133 (fig. 151). Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 37-38, no. 16 (ill.).

Isack van Ostade, Study of Seven Peasants, 1640s, pen and brown ink and gray wash over graphite on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of P. De Boer, 37.24.