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ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE (HAARLEM 1610-HAARLEM 1685)
The Interior of a Peasant's Cottage
Signed and dated 1668Oil on panel | 49.0 x 41.2 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404814
This is a depiction of a happy humble home (or possibly tavern), graced with modest plenty and model parenting. The figures have the slightly cartoonish character of a seventeenth-century Dutch Simpsons family. Ostade likes clutter – in the number of objects he can include and the number of variations he can introduce into the simplest surface.
Acquired by George IV in 1811, when Prince Regent
Acquired by George IV in 1811, when Prince Regent
