Village Kermesse with Peasants Feasting Under a Pergola
c. 1652
Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685
Adriaen van Ostade
Attributed to

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
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 12.7 × 17.5 cm (5 × 6 7/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.8319
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 28, State vi/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1945
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 52.
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. 47, vii/vii.
1990
Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 47, vii/vii.
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. 28, vi/vi.
Inscriptions
in plate, within image at lower right: Av Ostade; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: D. 47 - La fete sous la treille [?]; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand, upside down: E E 727
Wikidata ID
Q65018513