Workmen before an Inn
Isack van Ostade
c. 1645
Medium
pen and brown ink and wash and watercolor over black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 13.97 × 20.32 cm (5 1/2 × 8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Nell Weidenhammer Fund
Accession Number
2021.30.1.a
About the Artist
Isack van Ostade · 1621–1649
Isack van Ostade (1621–1649) was a Dutch Golden Age painter whose brief but brilliant career produced some of the finest winter landscapes in Dutch art. Born in Haarlem and trained by his older brother Adriaen van Ostade, Isack initially followed his brother's manner of peasant genre scenes so closely that early works were often confused between them. After establishing his own practice in 1641, h...