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ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE (HAARLEM 1610-1685)

Lot 31
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 1 200 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027442
Lot 31 | ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE (HAARLEM 1610-1685)
Estimate value
$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE (HAARLEM 1610-1685)

Peasants smoking, drinking and playing games before an inn

signed and dated 'Av. Ostade . 1658.' ('Av' linked, lower right, on the parapet)

oil on panel

26 ¾ x 23 ¼ in. (68 x 59.5 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) Jacob van Reygersberg, Heer van Couwerve (d. 1762), Middelburg; (†) his sale, v.d. Eyk, Leiden, 31 July 1765, lot 40, where acquired for 1,650 florins by Pieter Yver on behalf of,

Gerrit Braamcamp (1699-1771), Amsterdam; (†) his sale, v.d. Schley a.o., Amsterdam, 31 July-3 August 1771, lot 150 (2,525 florins to de Bosch).

Pieter de Smeth van Alphen (1753-1809), Amsterdam, 1781; his sale, v.d. Schley a.o., Amsterdam, 1-2 August 1810, lot 71, where acquired for 4,600 florins by Texier, Gerbet & Co on behalf of,

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun (1748-1813), Paris; his sale, Lebrun, Paris, 16 April 1811, lot 107 (12,001 francs to Constantin).

Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (1781-1824), 1st Prince of Eichstätt and 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg, Munich, and by descent to his eldest son,

Auguste Charles Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais (1810-1835), Prince consort of Portugal, 2nd Prince of Eichstätt, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg and Duke of Santa Cruz, and by descent to his brother,

Maximilien Joseph Eugène Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais (1817-1852), Prince Romanovsky and 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Saint Petersburg, and by bequest to his wife,

Maria Nikolaevna (1819-1876), Grand Duchess of Russia, Saint Petersburg, and by descent in 1886 to her eldest son,

Nicholas Maximilianovitch of Leuchtenberg (1843-1891), Prince Romanovsky and 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Munich, and by descent within the family.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Salon vert, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris, and by descent to his son,

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 18).

Selected for the "Sonderauftrag Linz" (no. 1464) on 5 February 1941 and transferred to Germany on 8 February 1941.

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 29 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1545).

Returned to France on 20 September 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

M. de Bastide, Le temple des arts ou Le cabinet de M. Braamcamp, Amsterdam, 1766, p. 56.

J.N. Muxel, Catalogue des tableaux de la galerie de feu Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Prince Eugène Duc de Leuchtenberg à Munich, Munich, 1825, p. 41, no. 110 (re-editions: Munich, 1837, p. 44, no. 110; Munich, 1841, p. 49, no. 131; Munich, 1845, p. 49, no. 131).

J.N. Muxel, Verzeichniss der Bildergallerie seiner Königlichen Hoheit des Prinzen Eugen, Herzogs von Leuchtenberg in München, Munich, 1826, p. 42, no. 110 (re-editions: Munich, 1831, p. 43, no. 110; Munich, 1834, p. 47, no. 110; Munich, 1841, p. 49, no. 131).

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, I, London, 1829, pp. 116 and 147, nos. 33 and 144; IX, p. 117, no. 127.

J.-B. Descamps, Vie des peintres flamands et hollandais, Marseille, 1842 (re-edition of 1760), p. 20.

J.N. Muxel, Gemälde Sammlung in München seiner königl. Hoheit des Dom Augusto Herzogs von Leuchtenberg und Santa Cruz, Fürsten von Eichstädt &c. &c. : in Umrissen auf Kupfer mit deutschem u. französischem Texte, Munich, 1849, pp. V and 99, no. 127.

J.D. Passavant, Galerie Leuchtenberg. Gemälde-Sammlung seiner Kaisrl. Hoheit des Herzogs von Leuchtenberg in München, Frankfurt am Main, 1851, p. 29, no. 153.

J.N. Muxel, The Leuchtenberg Gallery. A Collection of Pictures forming the celebrated gallery of His Imperial Highness the Duke of Leuchtenberg at Munich, London, 1852, p. 6, fig. 153.

Catalogue of the painting gallery of his imperial highness Duke Nikolaus Maximilian von Leuchtenberg, 1886, no. 111.

The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Salon vert, ‘Buveurs par Ad. Van Ostade – 60.000 francs’).

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, III, London, 1910, pp. 381-382, nos. 781 and 784.

C. Bille, De tempel der kunst of het kabinet van den heer Braamcamp, II, Amsterdam, 1961, pp. 36-36a, no. 150.

C. Frégnac, Belles demeures de Paris. 16e-19e siècle, Paris, 1977, illustrated in black and white in situ p. 254.

C. Frégnac and W. Andrews, The Great Houses of Paris, London, 1979, illustrated in black and white in situ p. 254.

J. Reynolds, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, Cambridge, 1996 (re-edition of 1797), pp. 109 and 175, note 606.

B. Schwarz, Hitlers Museum. Die Fotoalben Gemäldegalerie Linz: Dokumente zum "Führermuseum", Vienna-Cologne-Weimar, 2004, p. 128, no. VII/10, illustrated in black and white p. 279, no. VII/10.

L. Meerman, 'An unwritten chapter of Dutch collecting history: the painting collection of Pieter de Smeth van Alphen (1753-1809)', Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, 2018, XL, no. 1, pp. 25-26, 35-36, 77-78, note 45, no. 71, illustrated.
Artist:Adriaen van Ostade (1610 - 1685)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Art style:Old Masters
Genre:Genre art
Place of origin:Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands
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