Peasant Couple Walking

c. 1647

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

    sheet (trimmed to image): 7.7 × 6.2 cm (3 1/16 × 2 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8301

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 7, State ii/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalila (Lugt 567 and Lugt 2794); unidentified collector (Lugt 2591a); (sale 41, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, 6 May 1929, no. 561); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1929; 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. 24, iii/v.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 24, iii/v.

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. 7, ii/iii.

Inscriptions

in plate, within image at upper left: Av.ostade; verso, upper center, in graphite by a later hand: Man + Woman / Walking / B 24; lower left, in graphite by a later hand: [?] 191; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B.24 / 561; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 77

Wikidata ID

Q65018496


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