Adriaen van Ostade
1610-1685
Ale House Interior with Nine Peasants Smoking, Drinking, and Playing Cards or Tric-trac
10 3/8 x 8 13/16 inches (263 x 224 mm)
Pen and brown ink, watercolor and opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper; the outlines incised with a stylus; the composition has been extended at the top by the addition of a strip about 1 5/8 inches wide; the pen work in the addition is in black rather than brown ink.
1961.2
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining or in raking light.
The Library possesses two versions of this composition, both finished watercolors and both signed, one with the artist's initials (1962.2) and one with the name in full and the date 1673 (I, 133). Although each drawing may have been intended to stand as an independent work, they nonetheless served as preparatory studies for the artist's signed and dated painting of the following year, formerly in the collection of A. de Rothschild, Ascott, Wing, near Leighton Buzzard, Buckinghamshire (now the property of the National Trust).
The Library possesses two versions of this composition, both finished watercolors and both signed, one with the artist's initials (1962.2) and one with the name in full and the date 1673 (I, 133). Although each drawing may have been intended to stand as an independent work, they nonetheless served as preparatory studies for the artist's signed and dated painting of the following year, formerly in the collection of A. de Rothschild, Ascott, Wing, near Leighton Buzzard, Buckinghamshire (now the property of the National Trust).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with initials on the faggot at left, in brown ink, "AV.(in ligature) O". Inscribed on the verso of the lining, in graphite, at upper center, "A. Ostade"; and at lower left, "Bale colln ["n" in superscript]". Stamped in lower right corner, in red ink, "M. K. & Co. / W.C. No. 1255" (the number in black ink).
Associated names
Vos Jacobszoon, Jacob de, 1803-1878, former owner.
Revil, Narcisse, d. 1844 former owner.
Bale, Charles Sackville, 1791-1880, former owner.
Heseltine, J. P. (John Postle), 1843-1929, former owner.
Bale, Charles Sackville, 1791-1880, former owner.
Heseltine, J. P., former owner.
Revil, Narcisse, d. 1844 former owner.
Bale, Charles Sackville, 1791-1880, former owner.
Heseltine, J. P. (John Postle), 1843-1929, former owner.
Bale, Charles Sackville, 1791-1880, former owner.
Heseltine, J. P., former owner.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Eleventh Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1961. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1961, p. 87-89, illus.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 157.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, under no. 91.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 190.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 157.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, under no. 91.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 190.
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