Woman Frying Pancakes, 18th century

  • Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch, 1610-1685

Pen and brown ink and watercolor on buff laid paper

  • Sheet: 7 5/8 × 6 3/8 inches (19.4 × 16.2 cm)

Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps

56.290

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.