A man, woman, several children, a dog, and a chicken work and play outside a two-story, partially vine-covered, brown brick house in this vertical painting. All the people have peachy, light skin. We look slightly down onto a courtyard enclosed by the house to our right and a wall along the back of the yard, a short distance from us. To our right and closest to us, laundry dries on a line over a pile of branches, cast off bricks, and a wooden shovel near the lower right corner. A young girl wearing a white bonnet, a royal-blue shirt, and a long, harvest-yellow skirt sits on the dirt ground,…
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The Cottage Dooryard

Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610 - 1685)

1673

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 44 x 39.5 cm (17 5/16 x 15 9/16 in.) ; framed: 74.3 x 69.2 x 7.6 cm (29 1/4 x 27 1/4 x 3 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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