Adriaen Jansz van Ostade

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Description

Adriaen Jansz van Ostade
Two peasants in an interior
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk, indented for transfer;
signed with monogram lower right in black chalk, partially cut: AVO

Provenance

Clifford Duits, London

Catalogue Note

No print corresponding in composition to this drawing is known, so either the plate was abandoned, or the drawing was actually indented for transfer not to a copper plate, but to a panel or even another piece of paper, so that the figures could be included in a painting or a finished watercolor.