Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction
Old Master Paintings & Works on Paper Day Auction
Property from a Private Collection
Adriaen van Ostade
Interior of a barn with peasants carousing ('The sense of smell')
Lot Closed
July 4, 09:53 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Adriaen van Ostade
Haarlem 1610–1685
Interior of a barn with peasants carousing ('The sense of smell')
indistinctly signed on the overturned stool, lower right: A [...] de
oil on panel
unframed: 28 x 38.5 cm.; 11 x 15⅛ in.
framed: 48.1 x 57.9 cm.; 19 x 22¾ in.
Rosenberg collection, Northern Germany or The Netherlands, by the late 17th or early 18th century (according to a wax seal on the reverse);
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Phillips, 5 December 1989, lot 118;
With Xaver Scheidwimmer Gallery, Munich;
From whom acquired by the late father of the present owner for 85,000 Deutsche Marks;
Thence by descent.