Peasants Outside an Inn Entertained by Musicians with a Flute and a Drum
c. 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
plate: 10.4 × 8.7 cm (4 1/8 × 3 7/16 in.)
sheet: 10.9 × 9.3 cm (4 5/16 × 3 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.8311
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 37, State iii/v
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Thomas Philipe [c. 1740-1816], London and Edinburgh (Lugt 2451a); Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch [1806-1884], London and Dalkeith (Lugt 402); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1930
Godefroy, Louis. L'Oeuvre gravée de Adriaen van Ostade. Paris, 1930: no. 38, iv/vi.
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. 38, iv/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. 37, iii/v.
Inscriptions
in plate, within image at lower left: Av. ostade; verso, center, in graphite by a later hand: D.38; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: [?] Busch / B 38 Dav III / 857
Wikidata ID
Q65018505