The Violin Player Seated in the Inn
Cornelis Dusart
1685
Medium
Etching with roulette
Dimensions
sheet: 10 15/16 x 9 7/8 in. (27.8 x 25.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2011
Accession Number
2011.468
Tags
InnsInteriorsMenViolinsDogsMusicians
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...