Adriaen van Ostade
Dutch, 1610-1685
The Woman Spinning
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Adriaen van Ostade
Dutch, 1610-16851652
The Woman Spinning
Adriaen van Ostade Dutch, 1610-1685 →printprints and drawing
Date
1652
Medium
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.5 × 17.3 cm (5 3/8 × 6 13/16 in.); Plate: 13.9 × 17.6 cm (5 1/2 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 16.6 × 21.8 cm (6 9/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Stanley Field Endowment
Adriaen van Ostade was a prolific Haarlem painter and etcher of genre scenes that ranged from illustrations of raucous peasant feasts to depictions of working class family life. As an etcher, he was second only to Rembrandt van Rijn in his productivity and the collectability of his work; his prints range from the antic Merrymakers in an Inn (1894.1028) to the calmer Woman Spinning. Even the pigs at the bottom left of this image are lazy observers of the peaceful scene.
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