Adriaen van Ostade

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Adriaen van Ostade

1610-1685

Ale House Interior with Nine Peasants Smoking, Drinking, and Playing Cards or Tric-trac

1673

Pen and brown ink and wash, watercolor and opaque watercolor over graphite, on paper; framing line in brown ink.

9 15/16 x 9 1/4 inches (255 x 235 mm)

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

I, 133

Inscription:

Signed and dated at lower right, in brown ink, "Av.(in ligature) Ostade · 1673".
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam (similar to Heawood, no. 342: 1674).

Provenance:

Possibly Gérard Leembruggen Jzn (1801-65), Hillegom (no mark; see Lugt 2988); possibly his sale, Amsterdam, Roos, Engelberts..., 5ff. March 1866, lot 441 (to "Roos" for 1250 fl.); C.J. Nieuwenhuys (1799-1883), Brussels, Belgium, and Oxford Lodge, Wimbledon, England; his sale, London, Christie's, 15 July 1887, lot 30 (with lots 31 [I, 132] and 32 for £10.12.0); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Bibliography:

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, no. 133, 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, 91, 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. 191.
100 Master drawings from the Morgan Library & Museum. München : Hirmer, 2008, no. 58, repr. [Jane Shoaf Turner and Felice Stampfle]

Notes:

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).

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Associated names:

Leembruggen, Gérard, 1801-1865, 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.

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