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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 22, 2015 | Sotheby's | New York | The Weldon Collection | 16 | $****** - ****** | A man with pince-nez, reading notices (the sense of sight) |
paintings
15.5 x 11 cm (6.1 x 4.33 in)
oil on panel
signed and dated lower left: AvOstade 16 (the last two digits of the date obscured)
Probably Pieter Testas the Younger
. Probably his sale, Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth, 29 March 1757, included in lot 14, "The Five Senses ( vyf Kabinetstukjes, verbeeldende de vyf Zinnen, met eenig bywerk
teder en eel geschildert, door A. van Oostade, ieder hoog 6 1/2 duim, breet 4 1/2 duim), for 310, to Colijns
. Antoine-Claude Chariot (1733-1815), Paris
. Sale, Paris, A.J. Paillet, "Cabinet de M. Ch***," 28 January 1788, lot 16 ( Un homme ajusté d'un manteau , & très-attentif à lire des placards qui se trouvent sur une muraille de brique il est ingénieusement touché & varié de ton avec une intelligence de clair obscur admirable. Ce petit morceau parfait d'exécution & de couleur , offre la vérité de la nature & la beauté de la touche de van Ostade), for 682 livres, to Verrier
. Robert de Saint-Victor (1738-1822), Rouen
. His deceased sale, Paris, Pierre Roux, 26 November 1822, lot 186, for 850 francs, to Jean-Louis Laneuville or James-Alexandre, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier
. James-Alexandre, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (1776-1855)
. His sale, London, Phillips, 19-20 May 1826, lot 39, for 45 guineas, to Seymour or Nieuwenhuys (A cabinet gem, a Dutchman habited in a blue jacket and cloak, atrracted by some placards stuck against a house, which he is reading -- from St. Victor's Collection, in an or-molu frame)
. Miss S. Seymour, Salisbury
. A. Peek, The Hague, 1927
. With Kunsthandel Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, by 1927
. W.J.R. Dreesmann (1885-1954), Amsterdam
. W. Dreesmann (1913-1971), by 1940
. R. Dreesmann, 1980
. David Koetser, 1981.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Catalogus van de tentoonstelling van oude kunst door de Vereeniging van handelaren in oude kunst in Nederland in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, 1929-30, p. 31, no. 108 (as on loan from a private collection through Douwes);. Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Kersttentoonstelling, 21 December 1952 - 1 February 1953, p. 27, no. 53 (as on loan from a private collection);. Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Gebr. Douwes, Jubileumtentoonstelling 1805-1955, 1 June - 5 September 1955, pp. 15-16, no. 50 (as dated 1665);. Birmingham 1995, no. 13;. Washington, National Gallery of Art, Dutch Cabinet Pictures, temporary loan, 1 April -15 September 1996;. New Orleans 1997, no. 36;. Baltimore 1999, no. 35.
J. Smith, Catalogue Raisonné.., vol. 1, 1829, p. 153, cat. no. 169, (" A Dutchman standing to read some bills.. This is of very good quality"); . C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné.., vol. 3, London 1910, p. 169, cat. no. 90l and probably also p. 151, cat. no. 22a, "Sight";. New Orleans 1997, p. 88, cat. no. 36, reproduced p. 89;. Baltimore 1999, pp. 79-80, cat. no. 35, reproduced pp. 79 and 81.
