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

1679

Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

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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

    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

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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