Object number1971.13

Singers at the Window

Datec. 1667

Artist Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610-1685)

CultureDutch

MediumEtching

DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (23.8 x 18.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Betsy Mudge Wilson, class of 1956, Memorial Fund

On View

Not on view

Period17th c

Classification(s)

SignedOn recto, printed signature lower right within plate: A. v. Ostade fecit. et excud.

Inscribed"968" on verso

Catalogue raisonnéBartsch I: 19; Hollstein XV, (pp. 21-22)BibliographyBartsch I: 19; Hollstein XV, (pp. 21-22); Nogrady, Elizabeth and Diane Shewchuk. Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life, Featuring Paintings from The Leiden Collection, Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History & Art, 2024, p. 11, 83 ProvenancePurchased from David Tunick, New York

Vassar Exhibitions

Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition HistoryMaster Printmakers: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, April 9 1992 - July 19, 1992;

Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 27 - September 2, 2018;

Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life, Featuring Paintings from The Leiden Collection, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, September 14 - December 31, 2024
DescriptionDepiction of three signers leaning slightly out of a window reading a sheet of music by candlelight. There are additional figures in the shadowed background and a plant from above trails at the top of the window where a spoon hangs in the middle.

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