Landscape with an old oak

• Landscape with an old oak
• Landscape with an old Oak

SK-A-4093

signature, bottom centre: ‘A. ostade’

Adriaen van Ostade from Haarlem painted not only a great many genre scenes with farming folk, but also several landscapes. This painting, with its dramatic contrast between light and shadow, betrays the influence of Rembrandt.

painter: Adriaen van Ostade (mentioned on object)

c. 1639 - c. 1641

olieverf op paneel

• depth 4.5 cm
• height 34.1 cm x width 48.3 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1963

Public domain

…; collection Eduard August Veltman (1878-1964), Bloemendaal, 1936, 1938;{_Tentoonstelling van oude kunst in het Frans Halsmuseum van 4 tot en met 26 april 1936_, exh. cat. Haarlem 1936, p. 19, no. 27; _Meesterwerken uit vier eeuwen, 1400-1800: Tentoonstelling van schilderijen en teekeningen uit particuliere verzamelingen in Nederland bijeengebracht gedurende de veertigjarige regeering van H.M. Koningin Wilhemina_, exh. cat. Rotterdam (Museum Boymans) 1938, p. 29, no. 117.}…; purchased from the dealer D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, by Johannes Carl Hendrik Heldring (1887-1962), Oosterbeek, near Arnhem, in or before 1953;{A.J. de Lorm, _17e eeuwse meesters uit Gelders bezit_, exh. cat. Arnhem (Gemeentemuseum) 1953, p. 18, no. 48.} his sale, London (Sotheby´s), 27 March 1963, no. 10, to the museum, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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