Adriaen van Ostade
1610–1685 · Dutch Golden Age · 8 works
Adriaen van Ostade painted and etched scenes of everyday life, often concentrating on people at work or gathered in modest interiors. Based in Haarlem, he developed an approach shaped by Adriaen Brouwer and, later, by Rembrandt’s treatment of light. His prints turn a workshop, a household, or a small occupation into a subject worth sustained attention. In The Painter, the making of an image becomes the image’s subject. The setting and ordinary objects matter alongside the central figure, giving the viewer clues to a working environment.
8 works · 1647–1674
In The Painter, follow the light through the room. Which objects explain how this space is used?
1647–1660 · 5 works
Walk these 5Scenes of daily life were a Dutch favorite, and many painters specialized in them. Adriaen van Ostade of Haarlem painted peasants drinking, smoking and dancing. Gerard ter Borch, working in Deventer, painted elegant people at music or letters in gleaming satins. Jan Steen of Leiden made witty, moralizing comedies of family life and also painted biblical stories.
In the museum: Dutch Golden Age room · 1 work
1668–1674 · 3 works
Walk these 3In the museum: Dutch Golden Age room · 1 work
Aelbert Cuyp
View of IJsselmonde Seen Across the New Maas, c. 1640
Agostino Carracci
The Sacrifice of Pelias to Neptune, 1584
Annibale Carracci
Boy Drinking, 1582–83
