Watermark: Strasbourg Lily (cf. Churchhill 401)
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]
Pen and brown ink and watercolor on buff laid paper
Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps
56.290
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Watermark: Strasbourg Lily (cf. Churchhill 401)
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]
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)
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]
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.