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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2024 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction | 119 | $****** - ****** | Man holding a pipe | |||
Jan 14, 1988 | Sotheby's | New York | The Linda and Gerald Guterman Collection. Sale No 5676 | 28 | Estimates not disclosed | Old man smoking pipe |
paintings
22.5 x 18.1 cm (8.88 x 7.13 in)
oil on panel
signed lower right: Av. [in ligature] Ostade.
Meffre aîné, Paris;
His sale, Paris, François, Wéry C. P.: Benou, 26 February 1845, lot 67, for 401 French francs, to Cousin;
Baron de Varange;
His posthumous sale, Paris, Laneuville Ridel, 26 May 1852, lot 30, for 580 French francs, to Valery;
Baron de Varange;
His anonymous posthumous sale ("M. Le Baron de ***"), Paris, Laneuville Pouchet, 25 April 1857, lot 9, for 1500 French francs;
Duc de Stackpole, Paris;
His anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 14 March 1890, lot 31, to Villeneuve;
With Montaignac, Paris, by January 1893;
With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, by January 1893;
Baron Köningswarter, Vienna, by February 1893;
With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1894;
Dr Gottfried Eissler (1862-1924), Vienna, by September 1900;
Alfred Schindler, Vienna;
By whom sold, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 13 July 1926, lot 672, to Spanjaard;
Dr Hans Wetzlar (1894-1976), Amsterdam, by 1959;
By descent in the Wetzlar family;
Charles Roelofsz (1897-1962), Amsterdam;
Linda ( b. 1946) and Gerald Guterman ( b. 1942), New York;
Their sale ("The Linda and Gerald Guterman Collection"), New York, Sotheby"s, 14 January 1988, lot 28, for $60,500;
With Robert Noortman, Maastricht;
Where acquired by the present owner, c . 1986-88.
Laren, Singer Laren Museum, Kunstschatten: twee nederlandse collecties schilderijen uit de vijftiende tot en met de zeventiende eeuw en een collectie oud aardewerk , 14 June - 16 August 1959, no. 65.
Galerie Sedelmeyer, Illustrated catalogue of 100 paintings of old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English Schools, being a portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery which contains about 1500 original pictures by ancient and modern artists , Paris 1894, p. 34, no. 28, reproduced p. 35;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century , vol. III, London 1910, p. 198, no. 190;
Kunstschatten: twee nederlandse collecties schilderijen uit de vijftiende tot en met de zeventiende eeuw en een collectie oud aardewerk , exh. cat., Laren 1959, n.p., no. 65.
The Property of a Dutch Lady
Adriaen van Ostade
Haarlem 1610-1685
Man holding a pipe
signed lower right: Av. [in ligature] Ostade.
oil on panel
unframed: 22.5 x 18 cm.; 8⅞ x 7⅛ in.
framed: 37.9 x 33.2 cm.; 14⅞ x 13⅛ in.
