An Itinerant Peddler in a Village
1693
Medium
Black chalk, pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, framing line in black ink
Dimensions
sheet: 7 15/16 x 12 5/16 in. (20.2 x 31.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Frits Markus, 2003
Accession Number
2003.321
Tags
About the Artist
Cornelis Dusart · 1660–1704
Cornelis Dusart (1660–1704) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and printmaker who stands as one of the most important continuators of the peasant genre tradition established by Adriaen van Ostade in Haarlem. Born in Haarlem, Dusart entered Van Ostade's workshop as a pupil and assistant, a relationship that proved formative in every respect. He so thoroughly absorbed his master's approach — the depi...