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The Painter, c. 1647. Etching in black on buff laid paper.
Etching in black on buff laid paper · Image: 21 × 16.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Painter
- Artist
- Adriaen van Ostade Dutch, 1610-1685
- Date
- c. 1647
- Medium
- Etching in black on buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21 × 16.8 cm (8 5/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Plate: 23.5 × 17.3 cm (9 5/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Sheet: 24.6 × 18.6 cm (9 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
- 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.