Description: after Adriaen van Ostade Bust of a Laughing PeasantEtching, circa 1636. 1.5 x 1.25 inches. A copy after Ostade's etching, nearly identical apart from a fold in the cloth on the chest, as outlined in Godefroy. Adhered to laid backing paper with notes, including misidentification as fourth/final state. Ex-collection of Winfield Robbins with stamp on reverse. Godefroy 1. Neither moralist nor social critic, Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) was Holland's leading painter of peasant and low-life genre painting. His subjects included the village fair or kermis, village inn scenes, family life, domestic and agricultural work, and trades.Van Ostade probably trained in Frans Hals's workshop, where the subject matter of fellow student Adriaen Brouwer determined Van Ostade's own themes. In his early work, Van Ostade depicted scenes of peasants engaged in debauchery using Rembrandt van Rijn's forceful chiaroscuro. Later, Van Ostade portrayed calmer, more respectable people in comfortable interiors with carefully structured spaces and picturesque clutter. By then, both he and Holland had become more prosperous. An extremely prolific artist, Van Ostade produced hundreds of paintings; over eight hundred survive. After Rembrandt, he was the major Dutch etcher of his day and his prints were highly sought after well into the 20th century. He produced fifty etchings in his lifetime--all centered on peasant life--and they remain significant records of the everyday in the 17th century.
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Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Artist: Adriaen van Ostade
Type: Print
Production Technique: Etching
