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Peasants in an Interior
Also titled Boerengezelschap binnenshuis
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem, 1610–1685)
1661
- Medium
- copper (metal), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 36.5 cm x width 46.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Three men and a woman discuss daily matters, and a child eats soup or porridge while a dog looks on. Peasant life does not seem at all bad. In Van Ostade’s early works, peasants regularly tumble over one another brawling, but in his later paintings, like this one, they are usually calmer and much more collected.
