Attributed to Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem 1610-1685)
Villagers carrying peat into a house
with signature 'A. Ostade' (lower left, on the trunk)
oil on panel
35 ½ x 28 3/8 in. (90.2 x 72.1 cm.)
Attributed to Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem 1610-1685)
Villagers carrying peat into a house
with signature 'A. Ostade' (lower left, on the trunk)
oil on panel
35 ½ x 28 3/8 in. (90.2 x 72.1 cm.)
Q. van Stryen, Haarlem, 1715.
Th. Baring, London, 1848.
Baron Koenigswarter, Vienna, 1906.
with W.E. Duits, London, half owned by Jacques Goudstikker before October 1931; inv. 2644.
Looted by the Nazis July 1940.
Recovered by the Allies 1945.
In the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker (subject to investigation of the status of the joint ownership);
Marei von Saher, the heir of Jacques Goudstikker, New York, NY (confirmed as sole owner after investigation into the status of the prior joint ownership).
G. Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst (Naamlijst) van Schilderyen (schilderijen), med derzelver pryzen (prijzen), 1752, I, no. 177.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches..., Stuttgart and Paris, 1907-1928, III, no. 911. Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunst, July-August 1936, p. 229. Old Master Paintings. An illustrated summary catalogue. Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst/The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts, Zwolle and The Hague 1992, p. 232, no. 3387, as Adriaen van Ostade.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1936, Oude Kunst uit het bezit van den Internationalen Handel, 1936, no. 122.
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