Peasants in a Rustic Interior

1634

Adriaen van Ostade Dutch, 1610-1685

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Peasants in a Rustic Interior

Artwork Date 1634

Artist Adriaen van Ostade

Life Dates 1610-1685

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed (panel): 14 1/4 × 19 inches (36.2 × 48.3 cm) Framed: 20 1/8 × 25 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (51.1 × 64.1 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Day

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1998.22

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Signed Signed and dated, lower center: AvOstade 1634 [AvO in ligature]

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Provenance

MM Somoff & Veselovsky (St. Petersburg, Russia)

purchased by F. Meazza

April 15-23, 1884, sold by (Riblet, Milan, Italy) auction F. Meazza, lot 87, pl. 12

by 1911, Count Gregoire Stroganoff (Rome, Italy)

December 3, 1997, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 147, repr. [as an extended rectangle]. 1998, (Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd., London, England)

1998-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Hofstede de Groot, C. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 3. London, 1910, p. 318, no. 581. [as 1635.]

Hofstede de Groot, C. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 3. Esslingen and Paris, 1910, p. 323, no. 581 [as fully signed and dated 1635.]

Munoz, A. Pièces de Choix de la Collection du Comte Grégoire Stroganoff. Rome, 1911, vol. 2, p. 77, pl. LVIII. [as an ovaland as signed and dated 1633.]

"La Chronique des Arts Principales Acquisitions des Musees en 1998." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 133 (March 1999): p. 50, no. 190 (ill.).

Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts, London, 2004, pp. 152-153.

Keyes, G.S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School." in the catalogue for The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF). Maastricht, 2005, pp. 10-15.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Adriaen van Ostade, Peasants in a Rustic Interior, 1634, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Day, 1998.22.