Haarlem 1610 – Haarlem 1685
Interior of a Barn with Peasants – An allegory of smell
Signed and dated ‘Av ostade 1637’ | Middle centre
Oil on panelH. 17 cm. | W. 24 cm.
PROVENANCE
Private collection | Paris | France
Collection Floris van Wanroij Fine Art | Dommelen | The Netherlands
Private collection | Remscheid |Germany
REFERENCE LITERATUREKrol, A.E. (1981). Musée de l’Ermitage. Peinture de l’Europe occidentale. Leningrad: Hermitage, Vol. II, p. 155
RECORD
The present picture is recored at the RKD in The Hague under nr. 570455
CATALOGUE NOTEIn his charming and amusing painting Adriaen van Ostade, like his contemporaries David Teniers the Younger and Adriaen Brouwer, depicted a scene of the everyday life of the peasant class. At the same time it forms an allegory, that of the sense of smell. A variation on this compsition by Van Ostade is kept in the collection of the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg (inv.nr. 999).