Adriaen van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart 1610 – Haarlem – 1685 / 1660 – Haarlem – 1704

A Lawyer in his Study

Provenance

Sale, auction of the estate of Cornelis Dusart, Haarlem, 21 August 1708, lot 39

Amsterdam, Minken Art Dealers, 1935

United States of America, collection of A. Popper

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (gift of A. Popper), 1953-1954

London, Richard Green Art Dealers, 1987

Germany, Private collection

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, 10 vols., English ed., London 1910, p. 164, cat. no. 74a

Los Angeles County Museum, A catalogue of Flemish, German, Dutch and English Paintings, XV-XVIII Century, 1954, p. 50, no. 54, illustrated

Possibly, P. Biesboer, Collections of Paintings in Haarlem 1572 – 1745, Los Angeles 2002, p. 301: Dusart’s inventory of 1704: [441] no. 8 (een Advocatie van C. Dusart)