A barn interior with two children eating and a man working

Details

Isack Jansz. van Ostade (Haarlem 1621-1649)
A barn interior with two children eating and a man working
oil on canvas
33 ¾ x 48 in. (85.8 x 121.9 cm.)

Provenance

with K. Hermsen, The Hague/New York, November 1928.
with Gebroeders Douwes, Amsterdam, November 1928.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, November 1928; inv. 2189.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Recovered by the Allies, 1945.
In the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.

Literature

Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Hollädischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart, Paris 1907-1928.
Old Master Paintings: An illustrated summary catalogue, Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst/The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts, Zwolle and The Hague, 1992, p. 233, no. 2007.

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Kunstkring, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 22 December 1928-6 January 1929, no. 36.
Amsterdam, Jacques Goudstikker Gallery, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 12 January-28 February 1929, no. 60.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Bernhard Schnackenburg for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs (private communication, May 2008). Dr. Schnackenburg compares this large painting of a barn interior with the signed and dated painting formerly in the Dr. Hinrich Bischoff collection, now with Arnoldi-Livie in Munich. In both cases, he suggests a dating of 1641.

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