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Merrymakers in an Inn
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: A. van Ostade 1674
Provenance
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne (1734–1802), Paris and London; offered his sale, Skinner and Dyke, London, March 28, 1795 (Lugt 5289), lot 77, bought in; his sale, Michael Bryan Gallery, London, April 27, 1795, lot 127; sold, possibly at the April 1795 sale, to Edward Coxe, Esq. (died 1814); his sale, Peter Coxe, London, April 25, 1807, (Lugt 7229) lot 65. John Dent, Esq. (1760–1826), London; sold, his estate sale Christie’s, London, April 28, 1827 (Lugt 11429), lot 100 to C.J. Niewenhuys [Niewenhuys 1834]; sold to Richard Foster, Esq., Clewer Manor, 1827; his estate sale Christie, Manson and Woods, London, June 3, 1876, lot 138. Prince Paul Demidoff (died 1885), San Donato; offered his sale, Pillet, Le Roy and Mannheim, Florence, March 15-April 10, 1880, no. 1109, engraved, bought in; by descent to Princess Demidoff (formerly Princess Lise Troubetzkoi), 1885; sold through Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 1890, as part of a group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, many from the Demidoff collection, with funds advanced by Martin A. Ryerson and other trustees of the Art Institute [annual report 1891]; the cost of 1894.1028 was reimbursed by the George B. and Mary R. Harris Fund.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, 1933, no. 71. Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Interiors, November 30, 1967–January 7, 1968. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago's Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893–1993, November 1, 1993–January 9, 1994.
Publications
John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 1 (London, 1829), 145–46, no. 138. C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 3 (London, 1910), 306, no. 542. Charles Fabens Kelly, “Chicago: record years,” Art News 51, no. 4 (1952), 59. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84, no. 55 (September 1966), 191. Bernhard Schanckenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, vol. 1 (Munich: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., 1981), no. 4. Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington DC: Netherlands-American Amity Trust; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986), 48, 53. Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee (Art Institute of Chicago in association with New York Graphic Society, Little, Brown, and Company, 1988), 37 (ill.). Walter Liedtke, “The Collectors and Their Ideals,” in Ben Broos, Great Dutch Paintings from America, exh. cat. (The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1990), 35. Anja Ebert, Adriaen van Ostade und die komische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2013), 120 fig. 33, 121, 152-54, 159, 163f.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1685)
- Date
- 1674
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 46.7 × 41 cm (18 3/8 × 16 1/8 in.); Framed: 64.8 × 58.7 × 7 cm (25 1/2 × 23 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Holland
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- George B. and Mary R. Harris Fund
- Accession no.
- 1894.1028
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