# ‘The Skaters’: Peasants in an Interior

- By: Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem, 1610–1685)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2332--e7335b090f9583ef9fd8e72ac13173bf)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/tCDXa/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)

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.