Knife Fight Among Peasants

1653

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

    plate: 12.5 × 14.5 cm (4 15/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 13.6 × 15.6 cm (5 3/8 × 6 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1945.5.98

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 33, State vi/viii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William Esdaile [1758-1837], London (Lugt 2617); Richard Fisher [1809-1890], Hill Top, Midhurst, UK (Lugt 2204); Henry Studdy Theobald [1847-1934], London (Lugt 1375); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1945; gift to NGA, 1945.

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. 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, top center, in graphite by a later hand: 18; lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B.18, Dav V (of VIII); lower left, in graphite by a later hand: R. Fisher; bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: D.18

Markings

recto, below image within plate mark, in brown ink: WE. [mark of William Esdaile (Lugt 2617)]

Wikidata ID

Q65018518

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