VP4338

Adriaen Jansz. Van Ostade
(1610 – Haarlem – 1685)

A Tavern Interior with Peasants smoking and drinking

On panel – 10 5/8 x 12 7/8 in, (27 x 32.8 cm)

Signed on the mantelpiece: A. v. Ostade

Provenance:

• Sale of J. -B. van Lancker, Antwerp, 1835, lot 76 (2050 francs)
• MM. Tardieu fils, Paris, 1840
• Sale, Héris (Biré Collection), Paris, 25 March 1841, lot 32 (4900 francs)
• M. Stayaert van den Busche, Brussels, 1856
• Vicomte de Buisseret, Brussels
• Sale, Galerie S. Luc, Brussels, 29 April 1891, lot 83
• Martin Colnaghi, London, 1895
• Charles Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 1897
• Galerie Weber, Hamburg, 1912
• Beaufort Sale, American Art Association, New York, 21 October 1937, lot 16
• Private collection, Germany, until 2009

Literature:

• John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London 1829-42, suppl., p. 104, no. 86
• Charles Blanc, Le Trésor de la Curiosité, 1857-58, vol. II, p. 444
• Sedelmeyer Gallery, The Four Hundred, Paris, 1897, no. 27
• C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné…, 1908, vol. III, no. 277