Lot 251
  • 251

Isack van Ostade Haarlem 1621 - 1649

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Description

  • Isack van Ostade
  • A barn interior with peasants standing before a hog carcass, other figures warming themselves by a fire beyond
  • signed lower right: J. V. Ostade
    brushed with an old inventory number on the reverse: 37
  • oil on oak panel

Provenance

The Von Rath Collection, Budapest, 1895;
With Lichtenhan, Basel;
From whom acquired in 1929 by the grandfather of the present owner;
Thence by descent.

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., London 1910, vol. III, p. 481, no. 147.

Catalogue Note

This lot is sold with a letter from Dr. Wilhelm Bode, dated 1 December 1924, endorsing the attribution to Isack van Ostade.

We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer for confirming the attribution to Isack van Ostade and for suggesting a date of execution in the 1640s.