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Merrymakers in an Inn
Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1685)
1674
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 46.7 × 41 cm (18 3/8 × 16 1/8 in.); Framed: 64.8 × 58.7 × 7 cm (25 1/2 × 23 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- George B. and Mary R. Harris Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Over the course of a long and successful career in Haarlem, Adriaen van Ostade specialized in scenes of peasant life, including tavern scenes and village fairs. This late painting combines elements from both types, like smoking and drinking figures and musicians serenading a dancing couple. The artist used clear, relatively bright colors and fine brushwork, in keeping with the market demand of the later 1600s. Collectors also appreciated the range of emotions and gestures exhibited by Van Ostade’s jolly figures.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
