Smoker on a Stool Conversing with a Cobbler at Work

1671

Adriaen van Ostade

Associated Names
Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

This is a drawing of a cobbler at work in a rustic setting. The scene captures an outdoor environment with a wooden structure acting as a makeshift workshop for the cobbler. The cobbler is seated inside a small, low space below a sloped roof, working on a shoe. Various tools and shoes are scattered around. Above, atop the roof, a cat is peacefully sleeping. The background features elements such as ivy climbing up a wall, a window with leaded glass designs, and an old water pump.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.8 × 15 cm (7 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 19.3 × 15.4 cm (7 5/8 × 6 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8305

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 44, State vi/ix

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 839); 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. 27, viii/x.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 27, viii/x.

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. 44, vi/ix.

Inscriptions

in plate, within image at bottom right: Av. Ostade 1671; bottom right, in black ink: A [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B 27 Dav VIII; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 839

Wikidata ID

Q65018500

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