Le Gourmet en compagnie (The Breakfast)
Le Gourmet en compagnie (The Breakfast)

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Le Gourmet en compagnie (The Breakfast),

ca. 1664

Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch, 1610–1685
x1934-510
A highly influential painter and draftsman, Van Ostade was also one of the most important printmakers working in Holland in the seventeenth century. His work generally consists of sympathetic genre scenes depicting peasants pleasantly absorbed in their daily routines, bathed in softened contrasts of natural light. This etching was produced in the 1660s, at the height of the artist’s mature output, and portrays different levels of Haarlem society. While The Breakfast presents a good-natured peasant family crowded together in their single room to enjoy a meal, The Painter depicts a middle-class artist at work in a studio on the ground floor of his home.

Information

Title
Le Gourmet en compagnie (The Breakfast)
Dates

ca. 1664

Maker
Adriaen van Ostade
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 22 x 26.3 cm. (8 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.) sheet: 22.8 x 27.9 cm (9 x 11 in.) frame: 42 × 54.5 × 3 cm (16 9/16 × 21 7/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan, Class of 1888
Object Number
x1934-510
Place Made

Europe, Netherlands, Haarlem

Inscription
Signature etched in plate, lower left corner: A.v. Ostade Inscribed in plate lower center, text block in Latin
Marks/Labels/Seals
Collector Heinrich Friedrich de la Motte-Fouquet's stamp, verso (Lugt 778)
Reference Numbers
Bartsch 382.50; Godefroy 50 XII; Hollstein 50
Culture
European, Dutch
Type
prints, etchings
Materials
printing ink
Techniques
etching (printing process)
Subject
children (people by age group), men, men, figures (representations), women, inns

Junius S. Morgan (1867–1932); bequeathed to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1932

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