Ostade (Adriaen Jansz van, 1610-1685), attributed to. Two Peasants Conversing, pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk, faint grey-brown wash, with ruled brown ink border, 71 x 56 mm. (2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in), bears old pencil attribution to van Ostade on mount, under glass, tipped onto paper support, light browning, framed. Provenance: Sir Anthony Westcombe, British, (died 1752) [L. 202]; Possibly bequeathed to Bernard Granville, and thence by descent until the Granville sale, 22nd December 1857, which included 15 drawings by Van Ostade; John Postle Heseltine London [L. 1507]; Possibly Heseltine's first auction at Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 27th and 28th May 1913; Sale. Christie's, The House Sale, New York, 7th October 2005, lot 62 (as Attributed to van Ostade). ⁂ Unrecorded, but with excellent provenance, and stylistically very similar to the figure studies undertaken by van Ostade recorded by Schnackenburg and held in the British Museum and Ashmolean.
Ostade (Adriaen Jansz van, 1610-1685), attributed to. Two Peasants Conversing, pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk, faint grey-brown wash, with ruled brown ink border, 71 x 56 mm. (2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in), bears old pencil attribution to van Ostade on mount, under glass, tipped onto paper support, light browning, framed. Provenance: Sir Anthony Westcombe, British, (died 1752) [L. 202]; Possibly bequeathed to Bernard Granville, and thence by descent until the Granville sale, 22nd December 1857, which included 15 drawings by Van Ostade; John Postle Heseltine London [L. 1507]; Possibly Heseltine's first auction at Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 27th and 28th May 1913; Sale. Christie's, The House Sale, New York, 7th October 2005, lot 62 (as Attributed to van Ostade). ⁂ Unrecorded, but with excellent provenance, and stylistically very similar to the figure studies undertaken by van Ostade recorded by Schnackenburg and held in the British Museum and Ashmolean.
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