Two Peasant Women Conversing on a Village Street

c. 1652

Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Addie Burr Clark

  • 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

  • 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


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