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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Peasant Family in an Interior wtih the Father Feeding a Child is a 1648 ink by Adriaen van Ostade, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a rough wooden room with a family inside. The father stands near a table, feeding a child who sits on his lap. A woman and two other kids huddle nearby, while a dog lies on the floor. The walls are plain, and a pot and some tools lean against the back wall. The artist used sharp lines to show the family’s worn clothes and tired faces. This style was common in etchings of the time. Look up etching to see how artists like Ostade made prints like this.
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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