A Confidential Chat
Also titled Het vertrouwelijk onderhoud
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem, 1610–1685)
1672
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 4 cm (support incl. frame)
- 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
A man and a woman are enjoying a drink, some food, and a pipe in an inn. Curious how the plainly dressed woman holds her glass with both hands. Is she drunk? This late work by Ostade – he was 62 years old – originated in a time in which the lower echelons of society were no longer caricatured, but rather presented enjoying simple pleasures. Through her gaze, the woman draws us into the scene.
