Curtis_O_Baer_2010

15. Adraen van Ostade (manner of) Dutch, 17 th century

A Village Fair (recto and verso)

Pen and dark grey and brown ink over charcoal with light grey wash; verso: ink over pencil on paper with an eagle watermark 6 x 5 7 ⁄ 8 inches ( 15 . 1 x 14 . 9 cm) Inscribed lower left: A.V. Ostade 1669

provenance Sale, Klipstein and Kornfeld, Bern, June 16 , 1960 , no. 189 ; Collection Curtis O. Baer

literature Eduard Trautscholdt, “Some Remarks on Drawings from the Studio and Circle of the Van Ostade Brothers,” Master Drawings , 5 , 2 , 1967 , pp. 162 – 63 , plates 22 a and b

exhibition Atlanta, 1985 , cat. no. 141 b, p. 183