Peasants Outside a Farm Slaughtering a Pig
c. 1652
Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685
Adriaen van Ostade

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
plate: 11.7 × 11.7 cm (4 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
sheet: 12.1 × 12 cm (4 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1945.5.102
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 30, State ii/viii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalila (Lugt 567 and Lugt 2794); (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. 41, ii?/viii.
1990
Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 41, ii?/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. 30, ii/viii.
Inscriptions
in plate, within image at lower left: Av.ostade; verso, top right, in black ink by a later hand: 3; lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B. 41 Dav II; bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 121
Wikidata ID
Q65018523