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Peasant Family around the Fireplace
Also titled Boerenfamilie bij de haard
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem, 1610–1685)
1650 - 1660
- Medium
- paper, ink, pencil, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 239 mm x width 223 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
A family is gathered about the hearth in a meagre interior. By the fire, the oldest of the girls is drying a cloth. The mother is sitting beside a cradle feeding porridge to the youngest, while father and son look on. It was a favourite theme of Adriaen van Ostade’s, and he often introduced tiny variations: there was evidently considerable demand for these depictions of this simple, yet contented family.
