drawing
- Museum number
- 1836,0811.130
- Description
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Peasant couple drinking beneath a trellis in a garden; the man standing and reaching for a pot in order to fill the woman's glass, a dog beneath the table, other figures and a building visible through an arch beyond
Black chalk and grey wash
- Production date
- 1675-1704
- Dimensions
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Height: 197 millimetres
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Width: 177 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The 1995 Ostade Exhibition label text (exhibited with 1836-8-11-131):
The present drawing is a preparatory study for an etching, in reverse, of 1694. The dog may have been a symbol of lust, as it commonly was in seventeenth-century Dutch art. It is one of a series of two drawings. The other drawing (1836-8-11-131), with its crowded representation of the painter's chattles and the violin, is probably an allegory of the arts. The painter's spectacles may refer to his ability to deceive, anf his age to the adage, 'ars longa, vita brevis' ('art lives long, life is short').
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1995 Jan-Apr, BM, Ostade (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1836,0811.130
