Peasant Family Praying Before a Meal
1653
Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 15.3 x 13 cm (6 x 5 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.8309
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 35, State ii/vii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Postle Heseltine [1843-1929], London, (Lugt 1508); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d and 1760b), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1945
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 51.
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. 34, iii/vii.
1990
Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 34, ii/vi.
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. 35, ii/vii.
Inscriptions
in plate, within image at upper right: Av. Ostade / 1653; verso, top left, in graphite by a later hand: 34. r.; upper right, in graphite by a later hand: [illegible inscription] /
W/C [?]; lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.34 I / Dav 34 II / C. 6462 / 4; lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B 34; bottom right, in blue pencil by a later hand: 518
Wikidata ID
Q65018504