Two Peasant Women Conversing on a Village Street
c. 1652
Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

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: 10.3 x 9.1 cm (4 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
sheet: 12.1 x 10 cm (4 3/4 x 3 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1946.9.255
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 31, State ii/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Francis J. Underhill [died 1938], Brooklyn (Lugt 1018b); Mrs. Addie Burr Clark [1868-1946], New York (Lugt 80a); gift to NGA, 1946
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1996
Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.
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. 40, iii/v.
1990
Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 40, iii/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, ii/iii.
Inscriptions
in plate, within image at lower left: Av ostade; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B-13,480 [upside down] M3823-48
Wikidata ID
Q65066903