1652
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Rural Tenderness (Village Romance) is a 1652 by Adriaen van Ostade, a Baroque work, depicting Visitation, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This simple scene shows two people sitting by a fire in a thatched cottage. The woman stirs a pot while the man talks to a child. They wear plain wool clothes and wooden clogs. Van Ostade often painted Dutch village life like this. He liked showing quiet moments, not big events. Notice how the firelight makes the faces glow. Look next at Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1684).
Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx 10 December 1610 – buried 2 May 1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing the everyday life of ordinary men and women.
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