Two Peasant Women Conversing on a Village Street

c. 1652

Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Artwork overview

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist's estate (sale, Haarlem, Guild of St. Luke, 3 July 1685); purchased or withdrawn from sale by Dirck van der Stoel [d. 1723], Ostade's son-in-law, until 27 April 1686; Jan Zuyrendonck (or Johannes Suerendondonck), Haarlem, 28 December 1690;(anonymous sale, Haarlem, Heeren Logement, 24 May 1694); Pieter de Haan [1723-1766], H. van Winter and J. and P. Yver (sale, Amsterdam, De Keizerskroon, 9 March 1767, lot 80); purchased by Pierre Fouquet, Jr. [1729-1800]; purchased by Pierre-François Basan [1723-1797], Paris by 1780 (offered for sale in Brussels by Basan, 1791, not sold); by descent to his son Henry-Louis Basan, 1797; with August Jean [d. 1820], Paris, by 1810; by descent to Jean's wife, Veuve Jean (sale, Hôtel de ventes mobilières, Paris, 24-28 November 1846, lot 531); with Auguste Bernard [1811-1868], Paris, in 1846; by descent to his son, Michel Bernard, 1868; purchased by Victor Alvin-Beaumont [1862-after 1932], c. 1907; purchased by brother of E.H. Kok, 1938; acquired by E.H. Kok, 1941; heirs of E.H. Kok (sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 13 November 1995, lot 37); purchased by Noortman, Ltd., London; purchased by NGA, 1996. [1]
[1] For a full study of the copper plate's provenance, see The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Adriaen van Ostade, Paolo Giordani and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2023: pp. xxx-xxxvi.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.

Bibliography

1930

  • Godefroy, Louis. L'Oeuvre gravée de Adriaen van Ostade. Paris, 1930: no. 40.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1964; vol. XV, no. 40.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Adriaen van Ostade, Paolo Giordani and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2023: no. 31.

Inscriptions

lower right plate in reverse: Av.ostade; by Henry-Louis Basan (?), verso scratched: 33/09

Wikidata ID

Q63571245


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