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Identification and Creation

Object Number
7.2019.31
People
School of Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch (Haarlem 1610 - 1685 Haarlem)
Previously attributed to Cornelis Dusart, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1660 - 1704 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Seven Peasants in an Interior
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361344

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
14.7 × 12.8 cm (5 13/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso of backing board, white with black printed text: CM 158
  • label: verso of backing board, white label, black printed text: CHRISTIE'S [three barcodes]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam and Hergiswil; Mary Baur-de Boer, Hergiswil. [Galerie Sabrina Förster, Düsseldorf, 1993]. Sold [through Phillips, London, April 17, 1996, lot 122]. Private collection, sold [through Christie's, Amsterdam, November 10, 1999, lot 330 (as by both Adriaen van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart)]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
7.2019.31
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bernhard Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle (Hamburg, Germany, 1981), vol. I, pp. 62, 133, under cat. no. 265
  • S. William Pelletier, Leonard Slatkes, and Linda Stone-Ferrier, Adriaen van Ostade: Etching of Peasant Life if Holland's Golden Age, exh. cat., Georgia Museum of Art and University of Georgia (Athens, 1994), p. 261
  • Dutch, Flemish and German Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, Amsterdam (Amsterdam, November 10, 1999), p. 24, lot 330, repr.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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