Peasant Couple Walking

c. 1647

Adriaen van Ostade

Associated Names
Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

This is a drawing of two figures walking together. Two individuals are in conversation, both leaning towards each other as they walk. One figure wears a cloak with a hood while the other has a tall, pointed hat. There is movement in their steps, with their clothing flowing. The drawing shows fine, linear details in the clothing. The background is simple, focusing on the figures and their interaction.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8301

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 7, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q65018496

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