Description: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, 205 x 295 mm. Watermark: Foolscap. Chain lines: 25 mm. Signed at the bottom left, in pen and brown ink, Isack van Ostade fe. Numbered in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, 1939 (Sparre) and 4 (struck out).

Schnackenburg dates this drawing to the latter half of the 1640s. In late drawings like this, the outlines are fine and light wash gives volume to the figures. Some forms indicated only with graphite are left as they are. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 281]

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