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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 1, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings Part II | 476 | $****** - ****** | Peasant at a Window |
paintings
15.9 x 19.1 cm (6.25 x 7.5 in)
oil on oak panel
signed lower right: A.v. Ostade
John Walter III, M.P. (1818-1894), Bearwood, Berkshire;
Alfred Beit (1853-1906), London;
Thence by inheritance to his brother, Sir Otto Beit (1865-1930), London;
Thence by descent to his son, Sir Alfred Lane Beit, 2nd Baronet (1903-1994), Russborough House, Ireland;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Sotheby"s, 27 June 1962, lot 28;
Where acquired by E. Speelman;
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. van den Bergh-Bendix, Wassenaar, by 1965;
Thereafter acquired.
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition , 2 January - 18 March 1882, no. 116 (lent by J. Walter, Esq., M.P.);
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Winter 1926 - 1927, no. 26 (lent by Sir Otto Beit);
Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, Old Master Paintings from the Beit Collection , 1949, no. 19 (lent by Sir Alfred Beit);
Leiden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, 5-30 August 1965, no. 33 (lent by Sidney J. van den Bergh-Bendix).
Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School , exhibition catalogue, London 1882, p. 26, cat. no. 116;
W. Bode, The Art Collection of Mr. Alfred Beit at his Residence 26 Park Lane, London, Berlin 1904, pp. 15, 55;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century , vol. 3, London 1910, p. 153, cat. no. 37;
W. Bode, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures and Bronzes in the Possession of Mr. Otto Beit, London 1913, pp. 16, 79, cat. no. 40;
Old Master Paintings from the Beit Collection , exhibition catalogue, Cape Town 1949, pp. 8-9, cat. no. 19;
17de Eeuwse meesters uit Nederlands particulier bezit: oude meesters uit de collectie van de heer en mevrouw Sidney J. van den Bergh-Bendix , exhibition catalogue, Leiden 1965, cat. no. 33;
A.B. de Vries, ‘Old Masters in the collection of Mr and Mrs van den Bergh", in Apollo 70, no. 33 (1964), p. 357.
Property of a Private European Collector
Adriaen van Ostade
Haarlem 1610 - 1685
Peasant at a Window
signed lower right: A.v. Ostade
oil on oak panel
panel: 6 ¼ by 7 ½ in.; 15.8 by 19.0 cm.
framed: 15 by 13 ¼ in.; 38.1 by 33.6 cm.
