Peasant Couple in a Doorway

c. 1652

Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed irregularly to plate mark): 16 × 12.7 cm (6 5/16 × 5 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8293

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 26, State vii/x

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt [c.1840-1914], Berlin (Lugt 2926); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 810); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

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. 11, x/xii.

1978

  • Illus. Bartsch 1978, vol.1, p.332, 11.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 11, x/xii.

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. 26, vii/x.

Inscriptions

in margin at bottom left, in plate: Av Ostade; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B. 11 Dav VIII.; lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 18928/Weho; bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B.11 / ancienne et belle epreuve / 810

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q65018488

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