Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

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Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection

Adriaen van Ostade

A man playing cards, another smoking

Live auction begins on:

February 6, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Bid

5,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection

Adriaen Jansz van Ostade

Haarlem 1610 - 1685

A man playing cards, another smoking


Pen and brown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk

86 by 83 mm; 3 ⅜ by 3 ¼ in.

Sir Anthony Westcombe (d.1752), (L.202),

his estate sale and others, London, Puttick & Simpson, 22 December 1857, probably from lots 51-56;

Robert Prioleau Roupell (1798-1886), London (L.2234),

sale, London, Christie's, 12 July 1887, lot 1023;

Bernard Houthakker (1884-1963), Amsterdam,

his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 17 November 1975, lot 90;

With David Koetser, Zurich;

From whom acquired by Hans and Marion König, 1990.

E. Bock and J. Rosenberg, Die Zeichnungen niederländischer Meister im Kupferstichkabinett zu Berlin, Berlin 1930, S.111;

B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, 2 vols., Hamburg 1981, vol. I, p. 92, cat. no. 57, reproduced vol. II, p. 30, fig. 57

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Oude Kunst, 1929, no. 247;

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, De Verzameling van Bernard Houthakker, 1964, no. 76