1652
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Peasants Outside a Farm Slaughtering a Pig is a 1652 ink by Adriaen van Ostade, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a farm scene at dawn. Two men hold a pig on a table. A woman sharpens a knife. The pig looks calm. A dog sniffs the ground nearby. This is an etching, not just a drawing. Etchings use acid to bite lines into metal. Then ink fills the lines. This one has drypoint too—scratches made straight into the plate for fuzzy edges. Look up Ostade, Adriaen van next—he made many scenes 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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