LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel, single plank

Measurements:

31.69 in. (80.50 cm.) (height) by 49.21 in. (125.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower left: AV Ostade (AV in monogram)

Literature:

T. Martyn, The English connoisseur, containing an account of whatever is curious in Painting in the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England..., London 1766, vol. I, pp. 31f & vol. II, p. 21 (as in the Methuen collection); J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné..., vol. I, London 1829, pp. 189-90, no. 43 (as by 'Isaac van Ostade' and valued at 500 Guineas);; G.F. Waagen, Works of Art and Artists in England, London 1838, vol. III, pp. 105ff;; G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. II, p. 201 (as by 'Isaac van Ostade, but strongly reminiscent of Adriaen in parts');; G.F. Waagen, A walk through the Art Treasures at Manchester, London 1857, p. 34, no. 1011;; C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., vol. III, London 1910, pp. 273-4, no. 434 (as by Adriaen van Ostade: "A good picture, in the style of Isack, but unquestionably the work of Adriaen van Ostade");; A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Kunstler-Lexikon, vol. II, Vienna & Leipzig 1910, p. 288;; F. Simpson, `The English Connoisseur and its sources', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. XCIII, December 1910, p. 355;; A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912, vol. II, London 1913, pp. 891-894;; W. von Bode, Rembrandt und seine Zeitgenossen, Leipzig 1923, p. 132;; [R. Benson], The Holford Collection, London 1924, no. 160, vol. II, p. 34, no. 160, reproduced plate CXLV (as by Adriaen and Isack van Ostade);; T. Borenius, `Die Holford Collection', in Pantheon, April 1928, pp. 222-3, and June 1928, pp. 367-8;; W. Gibson, in Apollo, VII, 1928, p. 199;; Christie's Season 1927-8, London 1928, pp. 9, 14, 19-22, 28, reproduced p. 15;; G. Reitlinger, The Economies of Taste, London 1961, pp. 202, 404;; L. de Vries, Beknopte Catalogus van de Schilderijen Beeldhouwerken en Miniaturen, Mauritshuis, The Hague 1971, p. 109, no. 1041.; ENGRAVED; By P.C. Canot, 1771.

Provenance:

Sir Paul Methuen, London, until 1757:; By inheritance to his cousin Paul Methuen (d. 1795), Grosvenor Street, London, where hanging in the First Parlour; Paul Cobb Methuen (d. 1816), Corsham Court; Sir Paul Methuen (d. 1835), Corsham Court; With C.J. Nieuwenhuys, 1835-1844; Robert Holford (1808-1892), M.P., Russell Square, London, by 1845, and after 1854 at Park Lane, London; Thence by inheritance there and at Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, to his son Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926); His deceased sale, London, Christie's, 17 May 1928, lot 28 (as by Adriaen van Ostade), for £3,675 to Warden; Mrs. Cecile Warden (possibly a pseudonym), from 1928 to 1935 (seen in Lausanne, 2nd February 1933 with Roland Angebres, possibly for sale); Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 7 December 1933, lot 116 (withdrawn); With Daniel and Nathan Katz, Dieren, and Schaeffer Gallery, New York, 1936; J.M.B. Beuker, Utrechtsestraat 96, Heelsum, The Netherlands, acquired in 1936; Possibly by inheritance to his widow, Mrs. J.C. Beuker (née De Kruyff van Dorssen), but in Beuker possession until March 1963; Possibly with A. Martin de Wild, The Hague, by whom restored and cradled; Hans Kohn, Wassenaar, by whom acquired in April 1963; From whom acquired directly by the present owner in October 1972.