Merrymakers in an Inn

1674

Adriaen van Ostade
Dutch, 1610–1685

Over the course of a long and successful career in Haarlem, Adriaen van Ostade specialized in scenes of peasant life, including tavern scenes and village fairs. This late painting combines elements from both types, like smoking and drinking figures and musicians serenading a dancing couple. The artist used clear, relatively bright colors and fine brushwork, in keeping with the market demand of the later 1600s. Collectors also appreciated the range of emotions and gestures exhibited by Van Ostade’s jolly figures.

Status: On View, Gallery 213
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Adriaen van Ostade
Title: Merrymakers in an Inn
Place: Holland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1674
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed, lower left: A. van Ostade 1674
Dimensions: 46.7 × 41 cm (18 3/8 × 16 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: George B. and Mary R. Harris Fund
Reference Number: 1894.1028
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Walter Liedtke, “The Collectors and Their Ideals,” in Ben Broos, Great Dutch Paintings from America, exh. cat. (The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1990), 35.
Anja Ebert, Adriaen van Ostade und die komische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2013), 120 fig. 33, 121, 152-54, 159, 163f.

Educator Resource Packet: Merrymakers in an Inn by Adriaen van Ostade

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