Bust of a Peasant in a Pointed Fur Cap

c. 1647

Adriaen van Ostade

Associated Names
Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

The image shows a man with deep-set eyes, a prominent nose, and a full beard and mustache. He wears a hat and a thick coat with a large collar. The background is plain. There is a faint signature or inscription on the left side of the image, but no additional objects or jewelry are visible.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 7 × 5.8 cm (2 3/4 × 2 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 8.3 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8291

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 12, State vii/vii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Davidsohn [1839-1924?], Berlin (Lugt 654); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 800); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1964; vol. XV, no. 3, vii/vii.

1978

  • Illus. Bartsch 1978, vol.1, p.327, 3.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 3, vii/vii.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Adriaen van Ostade, Paolo Giordani and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2023: no. 12, vii/vii.

Inscriptions

in plate, in background at left: AvO; verso, at center, in graphite by a later hand: B.3 Dav VI; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 800

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q65018486

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