Two Peasant Women Conversing on a Village Street

c. 1652

Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Adriaen van Ostade

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 10.3 × 9 cm (4 1/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 11.2 × 10.1 cm (4 7/16 × 4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8312

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 31, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Victor Sieger [1824-1905], Munich (Lugt 2377); (sale 41, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, 6 May 1929, no. 568); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d and 1760b), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

  • Godefroy, Louis. L'Oeuvre gravée de Adriaen van Ostade. Paris, 1930: no. 40, v/v.

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. 40, v/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. 31, iii/iii.

Inscriptions

in plate, within image at lower left: Av. ostade; lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B. 40.; verso, left center, in graphite by a later hand: B. 40 / W. 40 II; center, in graphite by a later hand: F 40 / [illegible script]; lower left, in graphite by a later hand: N26 [illegible script]; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 568

Wikidata ID

Q65018506

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