Peasant Family in a Cottage Interior
Adriaen van Ostade
(Dutch, 1610–1684)
1661
Medium/TechniqueOil on panel
Dimensions13 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. (34.9 x 31.1 cm)
Framed: 51.8 x 52.7 x 5.7 cm (20 3/8 x 20 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession number2021.712
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenancePossibly Quirijn van Strijen (b. 1648 – d. 1719); April 2, 1715, Strijen sale, Princehof, Haarlem, lot 4, sold for 355 fl. to Mrs. Trappentier [see note 1]. Probably Graaf Johan Hendrik van Wassenaer Obdam (b. 1683 - d. 1745), The Hague; probably by inheritance to his brother, Graaf Unico Willem van Wassenaer Obdam (b. 1692 – d. 1766), Delden, The Hague; October 25, 1769, posthumous Wassenaer sale, Dankmeyer, Amsterdam, lot 1 [see note 2]. Louis-César-Renaud de Choiseul, duc du Praslin (b. 1735 – d. 1791), Paris; February 18, 1793, posthumous Choiseul-Praslin sale, Paillet, Paris, lot 57, sold to J. Desmarest [see note 3]. Joseph Duruey (b. 1741 – d. 1794), Paris; June 21, 1797, posthumous Duruey sale, Paillet, Paris, lot 3, sold to Antoine-Charles Dulac (dealer; b. 1729 – d. 1811), Paris, and Desnier (or Degnier). Alexandre-Louis Roëttiers de Montaleau (b. 1748 – d. 1808), Paris; July 19-29, 1802, Montaleau sale, Paillet, Paris, lot 110, sold for 6,500 fr. to Bon-Thomas Henry (dealer; b. 1766 – d. 1836), Cherbourg. By 1829, Jeremiah Harman (b. ca. 1764 - d. 1844), Woodford, Essex [see note 4]; May 17-18, 1844, posthumous Harman sale, Christie's, London, lot 100, sold for 1,386 gns. to William Buchanan (dealer; b. 1777 - d. 1864) for Robert Stayner Holford, M.P. (b. 1808 - d. 1892), Dorchester House, Park Lane, London and Westonbirt, Gloucestershire; to his son, Sir George Lindsay Holford (b. 1860 - d. 1926), Dorchester House; May 17, 1928, Holford estate sale, Christie's, London, lot 27, sold for £4200 to Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, on behalf of John S. Phipps (b. 1874 – d. 1958), Westbury, NY and Palm Beach, FL [see note 5]. By 1965, Carel Goldschmidt (b. 1904 - d. 1989), Mount Kisco, NY; January 11, 1995, Goldschmidt sale, Christie's, New York, lot 112. Richard Green (dealer), London (stock no. AM 224). July 7, 2005, anonymous (private collection) sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 18. Noortman Master Paintings, London; 2006, sold by Noortman to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2021, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 15, 2021)
NOTES:
[1] According to Gerard Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van schilderyen, vol. 1 (The Hague, 1752), p. 177, lots 4 and 5 in the Quirijn van Strijen sale were described as “Farmer Household” by Adriaen van Ostade. Buyer information given by Richard Green, The Cabinet Picture: Dutch and Flemish Masters of the Seventeenth Century (London, 1999).
[2] The French edition of the catalogue names the seller as Jean Henri, Comte et Seigneur Banneret de Wassenaar. Unico Willem’s estate may have sold it as Johann Hendrik’s collection or there may have been a misidentification of which Graaf van Wassenaer estate was being sold.
[3] This is probably the dealer Desmarest (also Desmarets, Demarais). This painting was not included in the March 17, 1797 sale of the stock of dealer Desmarest, after he went out of business.
[4] According to John Smith, Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 1 (London, 1829), no. 104. Jeremiah Harman also lent "An Interior" by Adriaen Ostade to the British Institution in 1815, but it is not certain that this is the same painting.
[5] According to the 2005 Sotheby’s catalogue.
