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Peasants Carousing in a Barn
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Peasants Carousing in a Barn

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brown, gray, and reddish brown wash over black chalk.

Dimensions

7 5/8 x 11 1/8 in. (19.4 x 28.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Rights

Public Domain

About Adriaen van Ostade

1610–1685Dutch Republic

Adriaen Jansz. van Ostade (1610–1685) was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker who specialized in genre scenes of peasant life. Born and raised in Haarlem, he became one of the most prolific and celebrated artists of the Dutch Golden Age, producing over 800 paintings, 50 etchings, and numerous drawings that captured the everyday existence of common folk with humor, humanity, and remarkable technical skill.