Two men indoors at a table: one fills his pipe while the other holds a pitcher and a tumbler of drink. Etching by G.F. Schmidt, 1757, after A. van Ostade.

  • Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Date:
1757
Reference:
3043041i
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Description

The man on the left "appears to be uttering a jest" (Hofstede de Groot, loc. cit.). The items on the table are man on the right looks knowingly at the viewer. Hofstede de Groot identifies items on the cask as a paper of tobacco and a charcoal pan, but here there is no cask, and one of the objects on the table is a closed box (for tobacco?)

Publication/Creation

1757.

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 25.4 x 20.3 cm

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Lettering

A v Ostade pinx 1667 ; G.F. Schmidt fecit aqua forti 1757

References note

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters, London, 1910, vol. 3, Ostade nos. 267 and 278, pp. 222 and 225 ("Two peasants at an inn")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3043041i

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