Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Four Peasants Smoking and Drinking

Adriaen van Ostade
1610-1685

Four Peasants Smoking and Drinking

1636
7 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (190 x 159 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over graphite, on paper; some later hatching at left center in graphite; framing line in graphite (or black chalk).
I, 126

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

Notes
Watermark: fleur-de-lis within a shield, surmounted by a crown (similar to Heawood, no. 1721a: Schieland, 1614).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, in brown ink, "Av(in ligature) ostade / 1636". Inscribed on the verso, at upper margin, in brown ink, "...-:g:".
Associated names
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, no. 126, repr.
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, 88, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 176.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department