Adriaen van Ostade
1610-1685
Two Men and a Woman Eating and Drinking
1673
5 1/2 x 4 11/16 inches (140 x 119 mm)
Pen and brown ink, watercolor in gray, brown, green, violet, blue, yellow, red and pink, over graphite, on paper; framing line in brown ink and narrow gold edge.
I, 132
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
An undated preparatory sketch, in pen and brown ink and gray wash, for this finished watercolor is in the British Museum, London. The version of the subject in the Biblioteca Reale, Turin is a copy of the Morgan drawing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at upper right, in brown ink, "Av. (in ligature) Ostade 1673".
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam, fragment (similar to Heawood, no. 347: 1676).
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam, fragment (similar to Heawood, no. 347: 1676).
Associated names
Kat van Oost-en West West-Barendrecht, Herman de, 1784-1865 former owner.
Nieuwenhuys, C. J., 1799-1883, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Nieuwenhuys, C. J., 1799-1883, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 189.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 132.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 132.
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