Peasants Fighting in a Tavern, c. 1640 (with additions after 1685 by Dusart)

Not on View

Medium

pen and dark brown ink over graphite (by Ostade) and pen and light brown ink with gray-brown wash (by Dusart) on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 14.9 x 26 cm (5 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edward William Carter and Hannah Locke Carter, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.51.1

Artists / Makers

Adriaen van Ostade (artist) Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Cornelis Dusart (artist) Dutch, 1660 - 1704

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in brown ink: AVo

Provenance

Sybrand Feitama; (sale, Amsterdam, 16 October 1758, no. 14). John MacGouan (Lugt 1496); (sale, London, 26 January 1804, on. 422 or 424). (Sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, no. 13). (C.G. Boerner), 1987. Edward William Carter and Hanna Locke Carter; gift 1990 to NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner, C.G., Mr.

Bibliography

1989: Ben Broos, "Improving and Finishing Old Master Drwgs," Mercury 8 (1989), 38.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p. 70