Landscape with a Bridge and Two Fishermen

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

    plate: 11.3 × 16.6 cm (4 7/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 11.7 × 17 cm (4 5/8 × 6 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1945.5.97

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 32, State ii/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

George Walker [first quarter of 19th century], Edinburgh (Lugt 1224); Paul Davidsohn [1839-1924?], Berlin (Lugt 654); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1945; gift to NGA, 1945.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

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. 26, iii/vi.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 26, 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. 32, ii/v.

Inscriptions

in plate, within image at bottom right: Av. O; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B-11,272 [upside down]; bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B.26, Dav. III; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 87

Wikidata ID

Q65018517

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