Village Kermesse with Peasants Feasting Under a Pergola

c. 1652

Adriaen van Ostade

Associated Names
Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

The image depicts a village gathering or festivity. The composition includes a thatched-roof cottage on the left with people engaging in activities. Trees cover the top portion of the scene, separating the sky. The artwork is finely detailed with intricate line work, creating texture. The color palette is monochromatic, featuring shades of sepia and beige. Figures can be seen moving into the distance, where a road narrows, bordered by more structures and trees, with a pig grazing nearby.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 12.7 × 17.5 cm (5 × 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8319

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 28, State vi/vi

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1945

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 52.

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. 47, vii/vii.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 47, vii/vii.

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. 28, vi/vi.

Inscriptions

in plate, within image at lower right: Av Ostade; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: D. 47 - La fete sous la treille [?]; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand, upside down: E E 727

Wikidata ID

Q65018513

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