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

1652

Adriaen van Ostade

Associated Names
Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

The image features an etching of a rustic homestead with a slightly elevated point of view. The scene includes a house, yard, a wooden structure, pigs, and people engaged in domestic work. The intricate brushstroke technique creates texture and depth in the depiction of wooden surfaces, foliage, and cobblestones. The color palette is monochromatic, emphasizing the contrast between light and shadow. In the background, there are trees and distant structures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    1994.60.47

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 25, State ii/vi

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

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.

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q75119132

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