# Peasant Family around the Fireplace

- By: Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem, 1610–1685)
- Date: 1650 - 1660
- Medium: paper, ink, pencil, chalk
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 239 mm x width 223 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1887-A-1364--0c28d8ca6783e8eb932ba6cfca9f3b30)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/rKvVX/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.