The Interior of an Inn with Peasants playing Cards
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem 1610 – Haarlem 1685)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1674 (monogrammed and dated)
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
359 x 333 mm (14 1/8 x 13 1/8 in)
Place of origin
Haarlem
Order this imageCollection
Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 1535102
Summary
Oil painting on panel, The Interior of an Inn with Peasants playing Cards by Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem 1610 – Haarlem 1685), signed and dated, bottom right: AV (in monogram) Ostade 167 (?) 4. Round a table in the foreground two peasants are seated playing cards while another looks on; on the left three more peasants converse before a fireplace, while in the background are three others near a window. In this interior of a shabby inn is shown the degenerate way of life and moral decay in 17th-century Holland with smoking, drinking and gambling.
Provenance
Collection of Count de Vismes in 1786; Sir Simon H. Clarke 10th Bt (1818 - 1849); sold Christie's 8-9 June 1840, lot 35; Charles Heusch (c. 1777 - 1848) whose collection Baron Lionel de Rothschild bought en bloc; by inheritance to his son, Leopold de Rothschild (1845 -1917); his son, Anthony de Rothschild (1887-1961), by whom kept at Ascott, and given with the house and grounds to the National Trust in 1949
Credit line
Ascott, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem 1610 – Haarlem 1685), artist
References
Waagen 1854-7: Gustav Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 3 vols. (translated by Lady Eastlake) with a supplementary volume: Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854-7, vol. II, p. 254 Smith 1829-42 John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, 8 vols and supplement, London, 1829-42, vol. 1, no. 37 Smith 1842 John Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London, 1842, no. 134 Hofstede de Groot 1907-28: C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, 8 vols., London 1907-28, vol 111, no. 846 Ascott, Buckinghamshire, Scala, 2008 by John Martin Robinson and others [pictures entries by Karin Wolfe on basis of Gore entries, 1963 with contributions from Alastair Laing] , no. 22