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Two Peasant Couples Dancing. Verso: Two Seated Figures and a Child.

Isack van Ostade
1621-1649

Two Peasant Couples Dancing. Verso: Two Seated Figures and a Child.

3 3/16 x 4 11/16 inches (81 x 119 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper; framing line in brown ink; verso: graphite.
I, 136a

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Like I, 136, the recto of this double-sided drawing may have been reworked by another hand, presumably Cornelis Dusart.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso, throughout, with computations in brown ink; at the lower right, in graphite, "Ostade".
Associated names
Dusart, Cornelis, 1660-1704, Possible attribution.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 136a.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department