ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE (HAARLEM 1610-1685)

ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE (HAARLEM 1610-1685)
Two peasants smoking, drinking and reading at an inn
signed 'AVostade' ('AV' linked, center right)
oil on panel
9 x 7 ½ in. (22.9 x 19.1 cm.)

Provenance
Count Johan Hendrik van Wassenaer Obdam (1683-1745), Wassenaar; his sale (†), de Hondt, The Hague, 19 August 1750, lot 33 (f 125).
Chevalier de Clesne; his sale, Paillet and Boileau, Paris, 4 December 1786, lot 33 (FF 2000, together with a pendant).
Jean Gilles Marie Joseph Schamp d'Aveschoot (1765-1839), Ghent; his sale (†), van Regemorter, Ghent, 14 September 1840, lot 52 (FF 1600).
Héris, Brussels; his sale, Le Roy, Brussels, 19 June 1846, lot 52.
Tardieu collection.
Viscount Bernard du Bus de Gisignies (1808-1874), Brussels; his sale (†), Le Roy, Brussels, 9 May 1882, lot 54.
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1986, lot 63, where acquired by,
Mr. Jiles Boon (1916-2009); (†), Christie's, Amsterdam, 9 November 2010, lot 32, where acquired by the present owner.