Workmen before an Inn
1645
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
overall: 66 x 58.4 cm (26 x 23 in.) framed: 94.9 x 86.7 x 7 cm (37 3/8 x 34 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CNE-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Richard A. and Lee G. Kirstein, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.64.1
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...