Adriaen van Ostade

Haarlem 1610 - Haarlem 1685


Landscape with Peasants playing Bowls.

Oil on Panel, 42 x 51 cm

Signed and dated: 165?

ENQUIRIES

Provenance

Collection George Field, Ashurst, Kent;
Sotheby’s London, 21 June 1961, no. 201 (Property Mrs Field);
Edward Speelman, London;
Dutch Private Collection.

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1910, vol. III, p. 407,
no. 865;
?Dr. G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. II, London, 1854,
p. 335, mistakenly as Isaac van Ostade;
Dr. G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, Supplement to Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, p.193;
W. Burger, Trésors d’Art en Angleterre, p. 314 (as by Adriaen van Ostade);
Sotheby’s, 217th Season, 1961, p. 151.


Exhibition

British Institution, London, 1850/51;
Marlborough House, London, 1856;
Manchester Museum of Art, 1857, no. 1020;
Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, Royal Academy London, 1871, no.1 (Boors playing at Nine-Pins, as lent by George Field, esq);
La vie en Hollande au XVIIème siècle, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1967.