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The Painter’s Studio
Also titled Schildersatelier
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem, 1610–1685)
c. 1647 - c. 1650
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 54 cm x width 51 cm x depth 8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
This painter is hardly rich: his workshop is located in an old, dark building. His artistic ambitions are not high, for on the easel is a modest landscape. Nevertheless, he has two apprentices. Van Ostade is here poking gentle fun at his own specialization. He did not portray his own studio, but invented the workshop of an ordinary painter who could have painted all of his (Van Ostade’s) peasant scenes.
