Peasant Leaning on His Doorway

c. 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

    Gift of Addie Burr Clark

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 10.6 × 9.2 cm (4 3/16 × 3 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.9.256

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 40, State ii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalila (Lugt 567 and Lugt 2794); Francis J. Underhill [died 1938], Brooklyn (Lugt 1018b); Mrs. Addie Burr Clark [1868-1946], New York (Lugt 80a); gift to NGA, 1946

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. 9, ii/iv.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 9, ii/iv.

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. 40, ii/iv.

Inscriptions

in plate, in image at left center: Av. Ostade; verso, at top left, in graphite by a later hand: No 2943; lower left, in brown ink: a; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: No. 9; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: 87 B-13,481 3Z; lower right, in graphite by a later hand: M3858; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 27

Wikidata ID

Q65066904

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