Adriaen van Ostade

Dutch, 1610 - 1685

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Adriaen van Ostade, Peasant Family on a Porch with a Girl Reaching for a Doll, 1679, etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.8296

Peasant Family on a Porch with a Girl Reaching for a Doll

Adriaen van Ostade · 1679 · etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.8296

Adriaen van Ostade, Village Schoolmaster with Three Pupils, c. 1679, etching on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1945.5.103

Village Schoolmaster with Three Pupils

Adriaen van Ostade · c. 1679 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1945.5.103

A man, woman, several children, a dog, and a chicken work and play outside a two-story, partially vine-covered, brown brick house in this vertical painting. All the people have peachy, light skin. We look slightly down onto a courtyard enclosed by the house to our right and a wall along the back of the yard, a short distance from us. To our right and closest to us, laundry dries on a line over a pile of branches, cast off bricks, and a wooden shovel near the lower right corner. A young girl wearing a white bonnet, a royal-blue shirt, and a long, harvest-yellow skirt sits on the dirt ground, leaning toward a little boy holding the paws of a black and white dog that stands on its hind legs. A broom leans against a fenced-in chicken coop behind the boy, and a bunch of carrots rests on the flat roof of the coop. Beyond the children, a woman sits hunched on a rushed chair, cleaning mussels taken from a wooden bucket and placed in an earthenware dish. A bearded man leans in the open doorway in the courtyard wall looking at the woman and a young girl helps a toddler stand nearby, as a chicken pecks at the ground. The roof slouches atop the brick house along the top edge of the canvas to our right, and the peak of another roof and trees rise above the courtyard wall. Fluffy white clouds float across the bright blue sky in the upper right corner. The artist signed and dated the work in dark paint in the lower center: “Av. Ostade 1673.”
Adriaen van Ostade, The Cottage Dooryard, 1673, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.48

The Cottage Dooryard

Adriaen van Ostade · 1673 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.48

Adriaen van Ostade, Smoker on a Stool Conversing with a Cobbler at Work, 1671, etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper, Gift of Addie Burr Clark, 1946.9.257

Smoker on a Stool Conversing with a Cobbler at Work

Adriaen van Ostade · 1671 · etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1946.9.257

Adriaen van Ostade, Smoker on a Stool Conversing with a Cobbler at Work, 1671, etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.8305

Smoker on a Stool Conversing with a Cobbler at Work

Adriaen van Ostade · 1671 · etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.8305

Adriaen van Ostade, Two Peasants Outside a House, the Woman Winding Wool, c. 1671, etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.8302

Two Peasants Outside a House, the Woman Winding Wool

Adriaen van Ostade · c. 1671 · etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.8302

Adriaen van Ostade, Man and Woman Conversing in Front of an Inn, c. 1671, etching and drypoint on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1945.5.100

Man and Woman Conversing in Front of an Inn

Adriaen van Ostade · c. 1671 · etching and drypoint on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1945.5.100

Adriaen van Ostade, Man and Woman Conversing In Front of an Inn, c. 1671, etching and drypoint on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.8294

Man and Woman Conversing In Front of an Inn

Adriaen van Ostade · c. 1671 · etching and drypoint on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.8294

Fourteen men gather around two tables in a dim tavern in this vertical painting. More men sit around a high, broad chimney, and another person, perhaps a boy, moves a basket the size of a laundry hamper in the lower right corner of the painting. The people all have pale, peachy skin, and they all wear hats. Their hats, jackets, and trousers are painted in shades of brick red, muted blue, gray, or brown with a few touches of brighter white at some of their collars. Several hold or smoke long-stemmed white pipes. The table closer to us is in the center of the composition, with one narrow end angling into the lower left corner. Five men sit on benches or ladder-back wood chairs around that table, playing cards or looking on. Another man on the far side of the table stands and leans on a forearm against the chair back of one of the players. The final man at this table stands on our side with his back to us. He holds a pewter pitcher in one hand, and that arm blocks the light source, presumably a candle. Five more men huddle around a table placed under a window on the far wall of the tavern, to our right. A man sitting with his back to us hides that candleflame as well, but the glow lights the men’s faces. The moon shines in through a second window above the first. A pair of men talk together at the far side of the fireplace. A single candle burns on the front center of the chimney, which is higher than the men would be if standing up straight. The corners of the room fall into shadow. Two logs, the broken stem of a white clay pipe, and a piece of curving wood lie on the ground near the boy with the basket. The artist signed the painting in the lower left corner, “Av Ostade” with an incomplete date, “166.”
Adriaen van Ostade, Tavern Scene, early 1660s, oil on panel, Gift of John Russell Mason, 1977.21.1

Tavern Scene

Adriaen van Ostade · early 1660s · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1977.21.1

Adriaen van Ostade, Knife Fight Among Peasants, 1653, etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.8297

Knife Fight Among Peasants

Adriaen van Ostade · 1653 · etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.8297

Bibliography

1729

  • Weyerman, J. C. De levens beschryvingen der nederlandsche konstschilders en konstschilderessen. 4 vols. The Hague, 1729-1769: 2:91.

1753

  • Houbraken, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. 3 vols. in 1. The Hague, 1753 (Reprint: Amsterdam, 1976): 1:320, 347-349.

1829

  • Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. 9 vols. London, 1829-1842: 1(1829):107-178; 9(1842):79-136.

1869

  • Gaedertz, Theodor. Adrian van Ostade: Sein Leben und seine Kunst. Lübeck, 1869.

1870

  • Willigen, Adriaan van der. Les Artistes de Harlem: Notices historiques avec un précis sur la Gilde de St. Luc. Revised and enlarged ed. Haarlem and The Hague, 1870: 21-23, 29, 233-241.

1900

  • Rosenberg, Adolf. Adriaen und Isack van Ostade. Bielefeld, 1900.

1907

  • Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. 8 vols. Translated by Edward G. Hawke. London, 1907-1927: 3(1910):140-436.

1960

  • Kuznetsov, Yury U. Adrian fan Ostade. Edited by Vladimir F. Levinson-Lessinga. Exh. cat. State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, 1960.

1971

  • Bie, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet van de edel vry schilderconst. Edited by Gerard Lemmens. Reprint of Antwerp, 1661/1662. Soest, 1971: 258.

1980

  • Miedema, Hessel. De Archiefbescheiden van het St. Lukasgilde te Haarlem: 1497-1798. 2 vols. Alphen aan den Rijn, 1980: 2:613, 665-672, 1060-1062.

1981

  • Schnackenburg, Bernhard. Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. 2 vols. Hamburg, 1981.

1984

  • Sutton, Peter C. Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting. Edited by Jane Iandola Watkins. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Royal Academy of Arts, London. Philadelphia, 1984: 281-289.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990.

1991

  • MacLaren, Neil. The Dutch School, 1600-1900. Revised and expanded by Christopher Brown. 2 vols. National Gallery Catalogues. London, 1991: 1:297-298.

1994

  • Pelletier, S. William, et al. Adriaen Van Ostade: etchings of peasant life in Holland's Golden Age. Exh. cat. Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor. Athens, 1994.

1995

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 184-185.