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See how the worn stone and wood of the window frame him like a picture within the picture, then find the vine leaves and the leaded glass above his hat.
A man in a tall hat leans on a window ledge, tankard in hand, and grins at us. The Art Institute of Chicago credits Adriaen van Ostade with making small pictures of drinkers and smokers at windows a Dutch favorite. The same vine and leaded glass appear in his little paintings of women at windows, so he may have planned some of them as pairs.
Oil on panel · 28.1 × 23 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Dutch Golden Age
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- Museum title
- Man with a Tankard at a Window
- Artist
- Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1685)
- Date
- 1650–60
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 28.1 × 23 cm (11 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Framed: 38.5 × 33.4 × 4.2 cm (15 1/8 × 13 1/8 × 1 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1610–1685
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.