Peasant Couple Walking, c. 1647

Not on View

Medium

etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 7.7 × 6.2 cm (3 1/16 × 2 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 7, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.8301

Artists / Makers

Adriaen van Ostade (artist) Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, within image at upper left: Av.ostade; verso, upper center, in graphite by a later hand: Man + Woman / Walking / B 24; lower left, in graphite by a later hand: [?] 191; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B.24 / 561; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 77

Provenance

D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalila (Lugt 567 and Lugt 2794); unidentified collector (Lugt 2591a); (sale 41, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, 6 May 1929, no. 561); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Arenberg, A. d', Prince
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 24, iii/v.

1990: Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 24, 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. 7, ii/iii.