ADRIAEN BROUWER, workshop (Oudenaarde c. 1605-1638 Antwerp) Peasants drinking in an interior. Oil on wood on canvas. 34.3 × 50.8 cm. Provenance: - Collection H. M. Clark, London. - Collection Dr Heilgendorff, Berlin. - Heinz Kuckei Collection, Berlin. - By succession, European private collection. Literature: - Wilhelm von Bode: Adriaen Brouwer: his life and works, Berlin 1924, p. 81, cat. no. 53. - Gerard Knuttel: Adriaen Brouwer. The Master and his Work, The Hague 1962, pp. 57-59. The painting offered here is based on a composition by Adriaen Brouwer, which is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (inv. no. 56.1185). Another version was formerly in the Schidlowvsky Collection in St Petersburg, which Gerard Knuttel assumes may have been the first version. These objects marked with * (asterisk) are fully subject to VAT, i.e. VAT is charged on the hammer price plus premium. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be reimbursed the VAT.