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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.114
People
Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch (Haarlem 1610 - 1685 Haarlem)
Title
Three Peasants Drinking and Smoking
Other Titles
Former Title: Tavern Scene
Former Title: La chronique du village
Former Title: Interieur mit drei trinkenden Bauern
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1640
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356435

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
diameter: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.)
framed: 35.7 × 35.4 cm (14 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, on bench: A. v. Ostade / 1660 [or 1640]
  • inscription: verso, top, black stencil: 211HE [Christie's stock number]
  • inscription: verso, bottom right of frame: 4048
  • inscription: top left, red chalk: 317 / [illeg. text]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold [Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, November 25-26, 1913, lot 276]. [Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, Autumn 1928]. Gladys Hermione Leith (Mrs. Henry Gordon Leith), [1] by 1943 – until?, [2] London. R. Isaac, offered for sale [through Parke-Bernet, New York, December 8, 1949, lot 10]. [3] [Christie's, New York, March 14, 1985], sold; to[Johnny Van Haeften, London], sold; to Peter and Anne Brooke, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017

Notes
[1] Gladys Hermione Leith was the wife of Henry Gordon Leith (1879-1941), a banker who had represented the Speyer Brothers in England between 1900 and 1919. They married in 1923. Born Gladys Hermione Catherine Chester-Master, she was first married to Frank Ashton Bellville in 1901. They had two children and divorced in 1909.

[2] Mrs. Leith consigned the work to Christie’s, London, for a sale on June 4, 1943 as lot 63. The painting was withdrawn from the sale.

[3] The lot was bought in.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter and Anne Brooke
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.114
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogus van Schilderijen in het bezit van de N. V. Kunsthandel P. de Boer, auct. cat., Kunsthandel P. de Boer (Amsterdam, Autumn 1928), no. 24, repr.
  • Od Masters, Dutch, Flemish, French, British, Primitive & Early Renaissance Paintings, Gothic & Renaissance Sculpture, French & Other XIX Century Canvases, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, December 8, 1949), p. 3, lot 10, repr.
  • Old Master Paintings, auct. cat., Christie's, East (New York, March 14, 1985), p. 44, lot 94, repr. (as by School of Adriaen van Ostade)
  • A. Cassandra Albinson and Jessie Park, "A Glimpse into the Dutch Golden Age", Index Magazine ([e-journal], April 27, 2018), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/a-glimpse-into-the-dutch-golden-age, accessed April 30, 2018

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018

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