ISACK VAN OSTADE
112 View of Eindhoven
from the Northeast
Pen and brown ink, black and red chalk, and gray, blue,
red, and green wash; H: 16.4 cm (6^7 /i6 in.); W: 22.6 cm
( 8 7/8 in.)
84.00.64 9
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: At bottom right corner,
inscribed J. V. Ostade in brown ink by another hand.
PROVENANCE: Adolf Friedrich Albert Reinicke; by de-
scent to Martin Reinicke, Darmstadt; private collection
(acquired in 1978) (sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 22,
1984, lot 151); art market, Boston.
EXHIBITIONS: None.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade,
Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle (Hamburg,
1981), vols. i, pp. 54, 61, 190-191, no. 577; 2, fig. 244;
P. Schatborn, "Tekeningen van Adriaen en Isack van
Ostade," Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 34, no. 2 (1986)
pp. 90-91, 92, n. 26; K. Vermeeren, "Isaac van Ostade
(1621-1649) tekende de middeleeuwse St.-Catherina-
kerk van Eindhoven van twee kanten," Brabants heem 38,
no. 4 (1986), pp. 228-236.
THIS IS ONE OF A NUMBER OF VIEWS OF TOWNS,
farmers' houses, and farm tools which have been attrib-
uted to Isack van Ostade by Schnackenburg (1981, vol.
i, nos. 560-580). It is closest by far to another town view
of comparable size and medium in the Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam (inv. 1978:65; Schnackenburg 1981, vol. i,
no. 578). Schatborn has identified the site depicted in the
Museum's drawing as Eindhoven shown from the north-
east (1986, p. 90) and has noted that a drawing by van
Ostade of circa 1639/41 (Amsterdam, private collection;
Schatborn 1986, no. 424 recto) similarly shows the
church at Eindhoven, but from the west. A copy of the
Museum's drawing is in the Frits Lugt Collection, Insti-
tut Neerlandais, Paris (inv. no).^1 That watercolor was at-
tributed by van Hasselt to Isack van Ostade,^2 but was al-
ready recognized by Schnackenburg as the work of
Cornelis Dusart copying van Ostade before the Mu-
seum's drawing emerged. The latter shows van Ostade
developing a genre of architectural subjects quite inde-
pendent of the work of his brother. Schnackenburg has
dated it and related sheets to the period 1646-1649.1. C. van Hasselt, Rembrandt and His Century: Dutch Drawings
of the i^th Century, exh. cat., Pierpont Morgan Library, New
York, and Institut Neerlandais, Paris, 1978, no. 78.
2. Ibid.252 DUTCH SCHOOL - I. VAN OSTADE