Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch 1610-1685) Etching
Artist: Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch 1610-1685).
Title: Peasant on a Tramp.
Medium: Etching on Watermarked Laid Paper.
Image Size: Height 7.8 cm x Width 5.3 cm. (Note: this item is not framed but is mated with an acid-free mount board).
Condition: Good clean condition commensurate with age, trimmed close to margins. There is a small hole in the paper bottom right (under the rock) and a repaired torn edge.
Provenance: Private Collection Surry, England.
About: Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch genre painter who also produced several etchings. The Peasant on a Tramp etching portrays a man who worked the soil either as a small landowner or as an agricultural labourer. The term originally referred to small-scale agriculturalists in Europe in historic times, but many other societies, both past and present, have had a peasant class.
Artist: Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch 1610-1685).
Title: Peasant on a Tramp.
Medium: Etching on Watermarked Laid Paper.
Image Size: Height 7.8 cm x Width 5.3 cm. (Note: this item is not framed but is mated with an acid-free mount board).
Condition: Good clean condition commensurate with age, trimmed close to margins. There is a small hole in the paper bottom right (under the rock) and a repaired torn edge.
Provenance: Private Collection Surry, England.
About: Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch genre painter who also produced several etchings. The Peasant on a Tramp etching portrays a man who worked the soil either as a small landowner or as an agricultural labourer. The term originally referred to small-scale agriculturalists in Europe in historic times, but many other societies, both past and present, have had a peasant class.
Artist: Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch 1610-1685).
Title: Peasant on a Tramp.
Medium: Etching on Watermarked Laid Paper.
Image Size: Height 7.8 cm x Width 5.3 cm. (Note: this item is not framed but is mated with an acid-free mount board).
Condition: Good clean condition commensurate with age, trimmed close to margins. There is a small hole in the paper bottom right (under the rock) and a repaired torn edge.
Provenance: Private Collection Surry, England.
About: Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch genre painter who also produced several etchings. The Peasant on a Tramp etching portrays a man who worked the soil either as a small landowner or as an agricultural labourer. The term originally referred to small-scale agriculturalists in Europe in historic times, but many other societies, both past and present, have had a peasant class.