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| Man with a Tankard |
Artist:Style of Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, second half 17th century)
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:10 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. (25.7 x 21.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number:29.100.198
Catalogue Entry
The execution of this painting, being looser than expected for Adriaen van Ostade, reminded A. B. de Vries (1952) and Horst Gerson (n.d.; verbal opinions recorded in departmental archives) of the artist’s younger brother, the genre painter and landscapist Isack van Ostade (1621–1649). However, the picture's quality is entirely inconsistent with that of either brother's work. Adriaen van Ostade painted this type of small picture in the 1650s and 1660s, when he was at the height of his abilities and a master of close observation. This panel is a seventeenth-century imitation of a work by Ostade or, quite possibly, a copy of an unknown work.
[2017; adapted from Liedtke 2007]
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