1652
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Farmstead wtih a Peasant Family Outside the Front Door, the Woman Spinning is a 1652 ink by Adriaen van Ostade, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows a simple wooden house with a thatched roof. Outside, a woman sits on a low stool, spinning thread. A child plays on the ground nearby, while another leans against the house. Inside, two more people sit at a table, with a birdcage and jars on it. The yard has a few tools and a barrel, and a bare tree stands in the background. The artist used fine lines to show every crack in the wood and texture of the clothes. This kind of detail is typical of the time period. Look up etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how artists create these sharp lines.
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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