Peasant Family on a Porch with a Girl Reaching for a Doll

1679

Adriaen van Ostade

Associated Names
Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

The image depicts three figures: a woman holding a young child and a man observing them. The woman and child are shown from the waist up, with the woman seated while holding the child on her lap facing the viewer. The man stands behind them, leaning over a ledge or table. The woman's face is soft, and she wears a headscarf. She is dressed in a detailed dress with puffed sleeves. The child also wears a headscarf and reaches towards the woman's face. The man has a mustache, wears a cap, and gazes at the woman and child, leaning on the ledge with arms crossed. Nearby is a bench with a pot and spoon. The background displays a wall, a window with diamond-patterned panes, and a vine with dense foliage above the family.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 10.3 × 9.1 cm (4 1/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 10.5 × 9.2 cm (4 1/8 × 3 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8296

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 50, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 818); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d and 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1933

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 112.

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. 16, iii/iv.

1978

  • Illus. Bartsch 1978, vol.1, p.335, 16.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 16, iii/iv.

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. 50, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

in plate, at bottom right, within image: Av. O. 1679; verso, at top left, in graphite by a later hand: 818; at bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: 818; at bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B. 16 Dav III.; at bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 1/234

Wikidata ID

Q65018491

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