PROVENANCE
Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past
  1. Master MR, Christ on the Cross
  2. Dürer, St. Bartholomew
  3. Dürer, Christ Before Caiaphas
  4. Raimondi, Philosophy
  5. Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
  6. Beham, Job Conversing
  7. Beham, Satyr Sounding a Horn
  8. Beham, Peasant Couple Walking
  9. Caraglio, Martyrdom of St. Paul
  10. Aldegrever, Standard Bearer
  11. Pencz, Feeding the Hungry
  12. Pencz, Artemisia Preparing
  13. Falconetto, Tomb Surmounted
  14. Claesz, St. Peter Seated
  15. Treu, Noble Dancers
  16. Master FP, Hercules Killing
  17. Brun, February
  18. Solis, Arithmetria
  19. de Bruyn, The Circumcision
  20. Sadeler, Virgin and Child
  21. Goltzius, A Young Man
  22. Matham, The Planets
  23. Brizio, Extensive Landscape
  24. van de Velde, Fête Villageoise
  25. van de Velde, Backgammon
  26. van Uyttenbroek, Tobias
  27. van Uyttenbroek, Bacchus
  28. Rembrandt, The Small Lion Hunt
  29. Hollar, Woman with Headdress
  30. Saftleven, Dutch Peasant
  31. Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
  32. Stoop, A Grazing Horse
  33. Fyt, Set of Animals
  34. Bega, The Three Drinkers
  35. Anonymous, Landscape
  36. Nanteuil, Charles Benoise
  37. Nanteuil, Cardinal Mazarin
  38. Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier
  39. van Vliet, St. Jerome Sitting
  40. Cossin, Ornament Design
  41. Sirani, St. Eustace
  42. Somer, Hagar and Ishmael
  43. Daullé, La Muse Clio
  44. Tiepolo, The Holy Family
  45. MacArdell, Hannah, Mrs. Horneck
  46. Laurie, Elizabeth, Dutchess
  47. Denon, Village Scene
  48. Charlet, Les Français
  49. Pieraccini, Holy Family
  50. Daumier, Y n’y a rien comm’
  51. Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau
  52. Daubigny, Lever de Lune
  53. Meryon, Le Petit Pont
  54. Rops, La Poupée du Satyre
  55. Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
  56. Legros, Un Coin de Rivière
  57. Buhot, Frontispice
  58. Forain, La Rencontre
  59. Pennell, Hampton Court Palace
  60. Delâtre, Silhouette de Femme

31. Adriaen van Ostade
(1610-1684)
Bust of a Peasant; Bust of a Peasant Woman

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Ostade, Bust of a Peasant

Bust of a Peasant; Bust of a Peasant Woman

Other Images:

Etchings, ca. 1636, 33 x 28 mm., Bartsch 1 and 2, Hollstein 1 ii/iv and Hollstein 2 iii/v. Fine, early impressions, before the borderlines, before the monograms, on laid paper, the first with small margins outside the platemark, the second with thread margins or trimmed on the platemark; old white paste verso on the first and thin spots, some soft creases.

Provenance:
B. 1: J. M. F. Geissler (Lugt 1072). Johann Martin Friedrich Geissler (1779-1853), who was born in Nuremberg and worked there and in Paris, was a draughtsman and engraver and also seems to have had some experience as a print seller. His own work still appears occasionally on the market. His varied collection of prints, some 1500 lots, was sold after his death in Leipzig, his drawing collection, mostly Dutch and German, 18th and 19th century, six years later.

B. 2: Franz Gawet (L. 1069). Gawet (1765-1847), previously mentioned under the print by Marcantonio Raimondi, was an engraver and collector based in Vienna.

F. Baumgartner (L. 975). The mark has been generally attributed to the Viennese print seller Franz Baumgartner, but Lugt suggests that it may rather be that of Andreas Freiherr von Baumgartner (1793-1865), also of Vienna, professor, minister of state and President of the Academy of Sciences.