Three Peasants at an Inn, One Looking Down a Jug

c. 1648

Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 10.5 x 9.1 cm (4 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1982.48.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 16, State vi/x

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie R. G. Michel, Paris); purchased by NGA, 1982.

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. 15, v/viii.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 15, 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. 16, vi/x.

Inscriptions

in plate, at bottom left below image: Av ostade; verso, at center, in graphite by a later hand: B. 15 v/viii; at right center, in graphite by a later hand: VGXX; lower left, in graphite by a later hand: La cruche vide [?]/ Etat / avant le lumiere sur / le chapeau et la / retouche / rare / 12 /10

Wikidata ID

Q74038635

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