About the Artwork
Woman Frying Pancakes
18th century
Adriaen van Ostade
1610-1685
Dutch
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and watercolor on buff laid paper
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 6 3/8 inches (19.4 × 16.2 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps
56.290
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper edge: Frying Pancakes | A van Ostade | Purchased from Esdale [sic] collection Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, lower center: A Van Ostade [by Esdaile]
Watermark: Strasbourg Lily (cf. Churchhill 401)
Provenance
W. Esdaile (London, England) [collector's mark L. 2617 with pen and ink on verso at lower left, 1831 WE 12xx]
W. H. Fanning
1887, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. William E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1956-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Le mon de paysan d' Adriaen et Isack van Ostade. Exh. cat., Institut Néerlandais. Paris, 1981, no. 13. [as old copy]
Schnacenburg, Bernhard. Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. 2 vols. Hamburg, 1981. no. 232. [copy]
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after Adriaen van Ostade, Woman Frying Pancakes, 18th century, pen and brown ink and watercolor on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps, 56.290.
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