The Painter in His Studio
ca. 1667
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. (21 x 16.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.15-349
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the cozy, cluttered world of Adriaen vanade's *The Painter in His Studio*, a charming etching from around 1667. This scene captures a male artist at work amid the everyday chaos of his interior workspace—easel at the ready, stairs leading upward, and tools of the trade scattered about. Measuring just 8¼ x 6⅝ inches, it's a compact gem from the Dutch Golden Age, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of's Drawings and Prints department, thanks to a 1917 purchase from the Joseph Pulitzer Bequest. Van Ostade, a master of Baroque genre painting and printmaking, delighted in depicting hum...
About the Artist
Adriaen van Ostade · 1610–1685
Adriaen Jansz. van Ostade (1610-1685) was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker who specialized in genre scenes of peasant life. Born and raised in Haarlem, he became one of the most prolific and celebrated artists of the Dutch Golden Age, producing over 800 paintings, 50 etchings, and numerous drawings. Van Ostade's significance in art history lies in his masterful depiction of peasant life, a ...