OSTADE ISAAK VAN, born in Haarlem, baptized June 2, 1621, died there, buried
Oct . 16, 1649. Dutch school; genre and landscape painter, brother and pupil
of Adriaan. The pictures in which he attempted to imitate Adriaan are of
little value, compared with his landscapes with figures in which his
individuality found scope.
Works: Old Fiddler, New York Museum; Dutch School, Tavern Interior, Historical
Society, New York; Village Scene, Frost Scene, Frozen River, Nat i o n a 1
Gallery, London; Travellers Halting (1643), Peasant Family and Fiddler (1646),
Buckingham Palace, ib.; Horseman halting at Village Inn, Country People before
Alehouse, Bridgewater Gallery, ib.; La Espulgadora, Madrid Museum; Travelling
Party before Inn, A Halt, Frozen Canal (2), Louvre; Winter Scene (1645),
Antwerp Museum; Halt before Inn, Woman winding Yarn, Brussels Museum; Peasant
Inn, do. (1633), Amsterdam Museum ; Tavern in the Downs, Rotterdam Museum;
Dutch Interior, Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle; Halt before Inn, Peasant
with Slouched Hat, Berlin Museum; Environs of a Farm, Copenhagen Gallery;
Pig-Slaying, Darmstadt Museum ; Skaters, Drunken Peasants, Dresden Museum;
Horseman and Pedestrian before Inn, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Peasant Room (1641),
Winter Landscape with Skaters, do. (1644? Oudenrogge ?), Peasants' Frolic
before Inn, Laden Donkey and Driver, Village Fair, Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Frozen Lake in Holland (1645), Landscape J Jat£ fan 0jtat)t with Halt
of Travellers before Inn (1647), Winter Scene, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Winter Landscape, Old Tippler, VeniceAcademy.—Ch.
Blanc, Ecole hollandaise; Bode, Studien, 207 ; Dohme, lii.; Gower, Figure
Painters, 45, 103; Immerzeel, ii. 288 ; Kramm, iv. 1234; Van der Willigen,
233; Zeitschr. f. b. K, vii . 351.
