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‘The Skaters’: Peasants in an Interior
Also titled ‘De schaatsenrijders’: boerengezelschap in interieur
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem, 1610–1685)
c. 1656
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 60.5 cm x width 52.2 cm x thickness 8.5 cm
- 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
Compared with the often ill-natured-looking drunkards of his teacher Adriaen Brouwer, the country folk in the paintings by Adriaen van Ostade are more mildmannered. They drink and smoke, but the atmosphere is generally peaceful. The pair of skates lying on the ground inspired the painting’s old, anecdotal title.
