Adriaen van Ostade
Tavern Scene
early 1660s23.8 x 20.4 cm
Oil on oak
Signed and dated lower left: Av Ostade / 166[?]
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of John Russell Mason
Literature
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 185-187
Provenance
Probably private collection, Belgium
purchased c. 1930 in Europe by Mrs. Edwin M. Watson (died 1971, née Frances Nash), Washington, D.C., and Charlottesville, VA
by inheritance to her niece and nephew, Ellen V. Nash (died 1993) and Edward Nash, Charlottesville, VA
by gift to John Russell Mason (1900-1981), Washington, D.C.
gift 1977 to NGA
Other works by Adriaen van Ostade
Carousing Peasants in an Interior
c. 1638
c. 1638
Peasant Family in an Interior
1661
1661
Farmers Fighting
Head of a Girl
c. 1655-65
c. 1655-65
The violin player
1673
1673