Farmstead wtih a Peasant Family Outside the Front Door, the Woman Spinning, 1652

Not on View

Medium

etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13.7 x 17.5 cm (5 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 25, State ii/vi

Accession Number

1994.60.47

Artists / Makers

Adriaen van Ostade (artist) Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, within image at bottom left: Av. ostade 1652; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 46285; by later hand, lower right verso in brown ink: J.56.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 1319/49; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 64; center verso in graphite: 3[9?] / N. 31.

Provenance

Pierre Mariette II [1634-1716], Paris (Lugt 1788-1790); Emile-Louis Galichon [1829-1875], Paris (Lugt 1058); George Usslaub [b. 1845], Marseille (Lugt 1221); Dr. Walter Beck [b. 1895], Berlin (Lugt 2603b); Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Beck, Walter, Dr.
Benedict, Ruth B., Dr.
Galichon, Emile-Louis
Mariette, Pierre II
Usslaub, Georg

Exhibition History

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 31.

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. 31, iii/vii.

1990: Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 31, iii/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. 25, ii/vi.

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 31.