ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE (Haarlem 1610-1685) AND CORNELIS DUSART (Haarlem 1660-1704)

This typical drinking scene by Adriaen van Ostade is a particularly interesting example of his works later worked up by his pupil and artistic heir, Cornelis Dusart. Van Ostade focused on the figure group, perhaps only sketching them; the penwork and washes, on the other hand, may all be the work of Dusart. The younger artist used the drawing as the model for the central part of a larger watercolor at the British Museum, probably an early work, in which the number of figures is much larger and the background more extensive (inv. 1910,0212.164; see Schnackenburg, op. cit., I, p. 61, no. F 157, fig. 71).
We are grateful to Bernhard Schnackenburg for confirming the attribution of the initial drawing to Adriaen van Ostade on the basis of a photograph.