Two Peasant Women Conversing on a Village Street

c. 1652

Adriaen van Ostade

Associated Names
Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

This is a drawing of a rustic village scene. The image features two figures in long, frock-like garments and head coverings at the center, engaged in conversation. Behind them are structures resembling cottages or farmhouses with thatched roofs, with additional figures in the background. One figure can be seen working at a spinning wheel. Trees and shrubbery overhead add a natural element to the scene. In the foreground, there is a depiction of rural life with a farm animal. The drawing conveys a busy yet harmonious rural environment.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Addie Burr Clark

  • Dimensions

    plate: 10.3 x 9.1 cm (4 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 12.1 x 10 cm (4 3/4 x 3 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.9.255

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 31, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Francis J. Underhill [died 1938], Brooklyn (Lugt 1018b); Mrs. Addie Burr Clark [1868-1946], New York (Lugt 80a); gift to NGA, 1946

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. 40, iii/v.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 40, 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. 31, ii/iii.

Inscriptions

in plate, within image at lower left: Av ostade; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B-13,480 [upside down] M3823-48

Wikidata ID

Q65066903

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