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Creator
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Adriaen Jansz van Ostade (1610-1685)
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Title
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Tavern Interiors, pair
A Fiddler and a Drinker (Facing Left)/ Drinker and Smoker (Facing Right)
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Description
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Oil on panel
7 ½ x 6 ¾ in. (each) (c. 19 x 17.1 cm.)
[Goudstikker Blackbook (18.7 x 16.8 cm.)]
Both paintings signed at lower right ‘Av Ostade’
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Provenance
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Van Beuren Collection. [Leo Nardus, né Leonardus Salomonson (1868-1955), New York and Paris, sold to]; Peter Arrell Brown Widener (1834-1915), Philadelphia. [Hamburger Frères, Paris, by c. 1919, sold to]; [Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), Amsterdam, by inheritance to];
[Mrs. Jacques Goudstikker (née Désirée Louise Anna Ernestine ‘Dési’ von Halban) (1912-1996), consigned November 1946 and sold through Rosenberg & Stiebel, June 1947 to]; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, and Frederick Mont (Mondschein), New York, sold October 1947 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.
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Exhibitions
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1917 – Haarlem, Catalogue de la collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, Catalogue no.14, 1917 [?]-31, nos. 51-2.
1919 – Rotterdam, Academie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, Collectie Goudstikker, May-June 1919, nos. 89-90.
1919 – The Hague, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, Exposée dans les Localités du Schilderkundig Genootschap ‘Pulchri Studio’, November 1919, nos. 89-90, Illus.
1920 – Haarlem, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, cat. no. XIV, nos. 51-2, illus. no. 131.
1936 – The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Nederlandsch Muziekleven 1600-1800, 6 June to 6 September 1936, no. 577 Vioolspeler [Fiddler and Drinker only], not illustrated.
1936 – Rotterdam, Rotterdamschen Kunstkring, Catalogus der Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen en Antiquiteiten, 17 December 1936 to 10 January 1937, pp17-8, nos. 43-4, not illustrated.
1938 – Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Gedenck-Clanck: Muziektentoonstelling ter gelegenheid van het 50-jarig bestaan van het Concertgebouw, May 1938, no. 77, Vioolspeler [Fiddler and Drinker only], lent by Goudstikker.
1941 – Amherst, MA, Amherst College, Morgan Hall, 1 - 15 February 1941.
1941 – South Hadley, MA, Mount Holyoke College, Museum of Art, 18 February - 2 March 1941.
1941 – Northampton, MA, Smith College, Tryon Gallery, Museum of Art, 4 - 18 March 1941.
1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, nos. 23-4, illus.
1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, p. 31, illus.
1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, nos. 26-7, illus.
1979 – Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, 17th Century Dutch Painting: Raising the Curtain on New England Private Collections, 15 September to 11 November 1979, pp.72-5, nos. 20-1.
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References
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Catalogue of Paintings Forming the Private Collection of P.A.B. Widener, Ashbourne, near Philadelphia Part II Early English and Ancient Paintings. Vol. II. Paris: Goupil & Co., 1885-1900, pp. 231-32, illus.
Hofstede de Groot, C. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 3. London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd., 1910, p. 215, nos. 243-4.
Welu, James A. 17th Century Dutch Painting: Raising the Curtain on New England Private Collections, 15 September to 11 November 1979, pp.72-5, nos. 20-1.
The Getty Research Institute Photo Study Collection, Los Angeles, CA: 76.P.60, Renaissance to Modern, ND644 Box 833: DUTCH, OSTADE, ADRIAEN VAN: Paintings: Genre-Social Life-Music Making. Source: 1919, The Hague, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, Exposée dans les Localités du Schilderkundig Genootschap ‘Pulchri Studio’, Catalogue no. 13, November 1919, nos. 89-90, Illus. Photo (COLL: Douwes).
Frick Photo Archive, Frick Art Reference Library, New York
Ostade, A Drinker and Smoker
Ostade, A Fiddler and Drinker
The Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London: The Witt Library Photographic Collection. Fiche no. 12,715: Netherlands School, Boxes 1723-1724, Ostade, A. Un Buveur et un Fumeur. J. Goudstikker Hague 1919.
The Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London: The Witt Library Photographic Collection. Fiche no. 12,715: Netherlands School, Boxes 1723-1724, Ostade, A. Drinker and Smoker, Widener Coll. Philadelphia. Van Beuren Coll.
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Status
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Under research
