Crossing the Ford

Isack van Ostade (Dutch, 1621–1649)

mid 1640s

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions25 x 28 in. (63.5 x 71.1 cm)
Framed: 82.1 x 90.2 cm (32 5/16 x 35 1/2 in.)

Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession number2021.710

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceProbably Richard Warner (b. about 1713 - d. 1775), Harts, Woodford, Essex [see note 1]; 1775, probably by inheritance to Jervoise Clarke-Jervoise (b. 1734 – d. about 1808), Harts and Idsworth, Hampshire; about 1808, by descent within the family; until 2007, by descent to Michael S. Clarke-Jervoise [see note 2]. 2007, Johnny Van Haeften Ltd., London; 2007, sold by Johnny Van Haeften Ltd. to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA [see note 3]; 2021, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 15, 2021)

NOTES:
[1] Warner, an art collector, bequeathed the majority of his estate to Jervoise Clarke-Jervoise, the widower of his niece Kitty. For more information on Richard Warner, see Sydney Lee, ed., Dictionary of National Biography, vol. LIX (London, 1899), pp. 398-399.

[2] The painting was on loan from 1974 onward to Hampshire County Council, Castle Room, according to Frederik J. Duparc in Dutch and Flemish Masterworks: From the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (Boston, 2020), p. 71.

[3] According to Duparc 2020 (see above, note 2), p. 71.