Peasants Outside a Farm Slaughtering a Pig

c. 1652

Adriaen van Ostade

Associated Names
Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

This image depicts a group of individuals around an animal in an outdoor setting by a cottage. The scene includes a tree, a house, and the figures in a circle, engaging in cleaning or preparing the animal. Light and shadow are used to highlight their actions and details. The drawing showcases fine line work and attention to detail in the figures and the environment.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.7 × 11.7 cm (4 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 12.1 × 12 cm (4 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1945.5.102

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 30, State ii/viii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalila (Lugt 567 and Lugt 2794); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1945; gift to NGA, 1945.

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. 41, ii?/viii.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 41, ii?/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. 30, ii/viii.

Inscriptions

in plate, within image at lower left: Av.ostade; verso, top right, in black ink by a later hand: 3; lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B. 41 Dav II; bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 121

Wikidata ID

Q65018523

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