Reading the News at the Weaver's Cottage, by Ostade

Reading the News at the Weaver's Cottage, pen and brown ink, watercolor, white heightening, traces of graphite; framing lines by the artist (?) in brown ink and gold. 9 5/8 x 7 15/16 in. (24.4 x 20.2 cm), Drawings, Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, Haarlem 1610-1685 Haarlem), This scene of a man reading the news surrounded by family and friends within the sunlit confines of a weaver's cottage epitomizes the rustic scenes of peasant life for which Ostade is so well known. Linen weaving, a profession practised only by men, became the most important and lucrative occupation in Haarlem in the seventeenth century

1670s 1673 Adriaen Confines Genre Haarlem Linen Ostade Seventeenth Sunlit Weavers Weaving

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