A Woman gutting Herrings in front of her House, Adriaen van Ostade (copy after), 1678

Identification

Title(s)

A Woman gutting Herrings in front of her House

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-C-564

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date, lower left, on the hutch (false): ‘AV. Ostade 1648’
date, centre right, on a piece of paper: ‘1678’

Description

Een vrouw haring schoonmakend voor haar huis. Een oude vrouw zit voor de deur van een woning vissen schoon te maken, een man met een wandelstok maakt een praatje. Links enkele kippen.

Creation

Artist

painter: Adriaen van Ostade (copy after)

Dating

1678

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 40 cm × width 32.2 cm × thickness 0.6 cm
outer size: depth 6 cm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan Mar-1892

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; ? sale, Seger Tierens (1657-1743, The Hague), The Hague (auction house not known), 23 July 1743, no. 171, as Adriaen van Ostade (`Une Femme assise devant sa Maison, mangeant du Hareng & causant avec son Voisin, par le même [Adriaen van Ostade], haut un pied trois & demi pouces, large un pied & un demi pouce [39 x 32.7 cm].´), fl. 76;{Copy RKD.}…; bequeathed by Margaretha Catharina Messchert van Vollenhoven, née Van Lennep (1815-1891), Amsterdam, to the City of Amsterdam, as Adriaen van Ostade, 1892; from which on loan to the museum since 1892

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

De oude Meesters van de stad Amsterdam : schilderijen tot 1800, p. 233
C. Hofstede de Groot, in: Oud Holland XVII (1899), p. 169

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.4908

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