Knife Fight Among Peasants
1653
Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 12.5 × 14.6 cm (4 15/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
sheet: 12.9 × 14.8 cm (5 1/16 × 5 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.8297
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 18, State v/viii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 822); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d and 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1996
Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.
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. 18, v/viii.
1990
Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 18, v/viii.
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. 33, vi/viii.
Inscriptions
in plate, below image at lower left: Av ostade 1653; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B18, DAV V; lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 822
Wikidata ID
Q65018492