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OSTADE, Adriaen Van [1610-1685].. Village Romance.
etching. 165 x 126 mm. signed 'Av. Ostade' in the plate. A good impression on laid, trimmed inside plate mark but outside neat line (thinning of paper in lower left corner). Provenance: rubberstamp on verso of the Kupferstich-Sammlung Der Konigl. Museen in Berlin. Tenth State (of 12). Van Ostade was a prolific Dutch Golden Age painter and etcher best known for his genre scenes of peasant life. He was born in Haarlem and probably trained with Frans Hals along with Adriaen Brouwer, whose style strongly influenced his own. "The greatness of Ostade lies in how often he caught the poetic side of the peasant class in spite of its ugliness, and stunted form and misshapen features. He did so by giving their vulgar sports, their quarrels, even their quieter moods of enjoyment, the magic light of the sungleam, and by clothing the wreck of cottages with gay vegetation." (Encyc. Britannica, 11th Edn.) Godefroy 11. Hollstein 11.
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