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Lot 14
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem 1610-1685)
A study of a peasant smoking a pipe
Closed14 November 2007
Price Realised
EUR 24,250
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Specialist note
We are grateful to Dr. Hiltraud Doll for confirming the attribution after inspection of the original (verbal communication, 27 September 2007). She dates the picture to circa 1636.
We are also grateful to Professor Schnackenburg for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph (written communication, 3 September).
Van Ostade recalls his teacher Adriaen Brouwer in this vibrant study. Van Ostade was well known for such studies of which two (one dated 1642) can be found in the Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam and one (c. 1646) in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Professor Schnackenburg believes this panel to be an early sketch, datable to circa 1637 and relates it to the artist's pen sketches.
We are also grateful to Professor Schnackenburg for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph (written communication, 3 September).
Van Ostade recalls his teacher Adriaen Brouwer in this vibrant study. Van Ostade was well known for such studies of which two (one dated 1642) can be found in the Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam and one (c. 1646) in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Professor Schnackenburg believes this panel to be an early sketch, datable to circa 1637 and relates it to the artist's pen sketches.