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Merrymakers in an Inn

Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1685)LinkedCulture matchlcp-790a3c7fb476

Date: 1674
Medium: Oil on panel
Culture: Holland
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 117476

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Over the course of a long and successful career in Haarlem, Adriaen van Ostade specialized in scenes of peasant life, including tavern scenes and village fairs. This late painting combines elements from both types, like smoking and drinking figures and musicians serenading a dancing couple. The artist used clear, relatively bright colors and fine brushwork, in keeping with the market demand of the later 1600s. Collectors also appreciated the range of emotions and gestures exhibited by Van Ostade’s jolly figures.

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Credit line: George B. and Mary R. Harris Fund
Provenance: Charles-Alexandre de Calonne (1734–1802), Paris and London; offered his sale, Skinner and Dyke, London, March 28, 1795 (Lugt 5289), lot 77, bought in; his sale, Michael Bryan Gallery, London, April 27, 1795, lot 127; sold, possibly at the April 1795 sale, to Edward Coxe, Esq. (died 1814); his sale, Peter Coxe, London, April 25, 1807, (Lugt 7229) lot 65. John Dent, Esq. (1760–1826), London; sold, his estate sale Christie’s, London, April 28, 1827 (Lugt 11429), lot 100 to C.J. Niewenhuys [Niewenhuys 1834]; sold to Richard Foster, Esq., Clewer Manor, 1827; his estate sale Christie, Manson and Woods, London, June 3, 1876, lot 138. Prince Paul Demidoff (died 1885), San Donato; offered his sale, Pillet, Le Roy and Mannheim, Florence, March 15-April 10, 1880, no. 1109, engraved, bought in; by descent to Princess Demidoff (formerly Princess Lise Troubetzkoi), 1885; sold through Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 1890, as part of a group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, many from the Demidoff collection, with funds advanced by Martin A. Ryerson and other trustees of the Art Institute [annual report 1891]; the cost of 1894.1028 was reimbursed by the George B. and Mary R. Harris Fund.