LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

15.35 in. (39.00 cm.) (height) by 20.28 in. (51.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

indistinctly signed and dated lower centre: Isaac van Ostade 1640

Condition:

framed

Provenance:

Collection W. G. Wigram, London;, ith C. Marshall Spink, London (1938);, Private collection, Austria, We are grateful to Fred Meijer, ,who confirmed the present painting as an autograph work by Isaac van Ostade. It is comparable to another work by Isaac van Ostade from 1641 in a German private collection (see W. Bernt, vol. II, Munich 1969, no. 892), and to a painting by the artist in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow (1640–44). The present painting once bore a false signature for Adriaen van Ostade