Isaac van Ostade (Haarlem 1621-1649)

Five studies of wagon by Isaac van Ostade are today known, one is in the Rijskmuseum (van Sloten, op. cit., no. 57), and the other three were in the van Regteren Altena collection: the present one, one sold at Christie's, London, 10 July 2014, lot 51, and one which will be offered in May 2015 in Amsterdam. These four sheets and a drawing of knife-grinder's wheel barrow in the Fondation Custodia, Paris (Schnackenburg, op. cit., no. 563) suggest that Isaac drew from life a number of such vehicles as exercises, and then kept them as part of a stock he could later use in his paintings.