Painter in His Studio

c. 1647

Adriaen van Ostade

Associated Names
Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

This is a painting of an artist at work in a studio. The room depicted is detailed, showing an artist seated at an easel, painting. The interior is rustic, with large arched windows letting in light. A workshop with wooden beams overhead, shelves holding books and tools, sculptures, and paintings on the walls. An arch leads up spiral stairs. The painting captures the texture of the wooden floor and light and shadow. It is in the style of a 17th-century Dutch painter.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.5 x 17.3 cm (9 1/4 x 6 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 24.2 x 17.9 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8307

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 3, State xii/xiv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 846); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

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. 32, x/xii.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 32, x/xii.

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. 3, xii/xiv.

Inscriptions

in plate, in margin below image: Pictor Apellaea pingas licet arte tabellam, / Quae modo pictores, et modo fallit aves, / Livor edax sed enim, nisi te fortuna bearit, / Auferret ingenio praemia digna tuo.; in plate, in margin below image at bottom right: A.v. Ostade fecit. et. excud.; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: B32 Dav IX; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 846; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: B-10,369

Wikidata ID

Q65018502

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