A Street in a Village or Town

A Street in a Village or Town

RP-T-1978-65

While landscape is merely a background in the drawings of Adriaen van Ostade, for his brother Isaac it was often the main subject. A fine example is this meticulously detailed pen drawing of a street, coloured here and there in pale shades of watercolour. The identity of the village or town is no longer known.

draughtsman: Isaac van Ostade

1646 - 1649

pen in bruin, penseel in waterverf in kleuren, over een schets in zwart krijt

height 156 mm x width 216 mm

purchase 1978

Public domain

….; collection of Adolf Friedrich Albert Reinicke (1753-1838), Neu-Strelitz;{Note RMA.} by descent to M. Reinicke, Darmstadt; from whom DM. 250, with xx other objects, to the museum, 1978

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