Adriaen van Ostade

Meffre aîné, Paris;

His sale, Paris, François, Wéry C. P.: Benou, 26 February 1845, lot 67, for 401 French francs, to Cousin;

Baron de Varange;

His posthumous sale, Paris, Laneuville Ridel, 26 May 1852, lot 30, for 580 French francs, to Valery;

Baron de Varange;

His anonymous posthumous sale ('M. Le Baron de ***'), Paris, Laneuville Pouchet, 25 April 1857, lot 9, for 1500 French francs;

Duc de Stackpole, Paris;

His anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 14 March 1890, lot 31, to Villeneuve;

With Montaignac, Paris, by January 1893;

With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, by January 1893;

Baron Köningswarter, Vienna, by February 1893;

With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1894;

Dr Gottfried Eissler (1862–1924), Vienna, by September 1900;

Alfred Schindler, Vienna;

By whom sold, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 13 July 1926, lot 672, to Spanjaard;

Dr Hans Wetzlar (1894–1976), Amsterdam, by 1959;

By descent in the Wetzlar family;

Charles Roelofsz (1897–1962), Amsterdam;

Linda (b. 1946) and Gerald Guterman (b. 1942), New York;

Their sale ('The Linda and Gerald Guterman Collection'), New York, Sotheby’s, 14 January 1988, lot 28, for $60,500;

With Robert Noortman, Maastricht;

Where acquired by the present owner, c. 1986–88.

Galerie Sedelmeyer, Illustrated catalogue of 100 paintings of old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English Schools, being a portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery which contains about 1500 original pictures by ancient and modern artists, Paris 1894, p. 34, no. 28, reproduced p. 35;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, vol. III, London 1910, p. 198, no. 190;

Kunstschatten: twee nederlandse collecties schilderijen uit de vijftiende tot en met de zeventiende eeuw en een collectie oud aardewerk, exh. cat., Laren 1959, n.p., no. 65.

Laren, Singer Laren Museum, Kunstschatten: twee nederlandse collecties schilderijen uit de vijftiende tot en met de zeventiende eeuw en een collectie oud aardewerk, 14 June – 16 August 1959, no. 65.

Note on Provenance

This painting was previously owned by Linda and Gerald Guterman, who amassed a large collection of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish works from the 1970s onwards. Their pictures were housed in a 3,000 square foot gallery created in the image of the Frick Museum, New York, in a wing of the Gutermans' Estate in Bedford, Westchester County. Among other artists, the collection included works by Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634), Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1637/8), Frans Hals (1582/83–1666), Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606–1683/4), Hendrick Terbrugghen (1588–1629) and Jan Jansz. den Uyl (1595–1639), all of which appeared for sale at Sotheby's New York in 1988, alongside the present work (see Provenance). The Hals was on the market again in 2013, when it sold at Sotheby's London for £2,994,500.¹ The Den Uyl, which was once described as 'the most beautifully perfect Dutch monochrome still-life in existence',² later sold at Christie's London in 2022 for £3,142,500.³

¹ Oil on canvas, 79.5 x 58.5 cm.; https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l13036/lot.35.html.

² D. Gimelson, 'The Guterman Collection: Portrait of the Businessman as a Collector', Art+Auction, September 1985.

³ Oil on panel, 90.4 x 71.7 cm.; https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6381779.