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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Street Vendor Selling Spectacles at the Door is a 1647 ink by Adriaen van Ostade, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a street scene with three people near a wooden door. One person is sitting on the ground, holding a basket. Another stands, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and holding a small object, while a child leans against the door. The background has rough lines for a tree and walls, giving a sketchy, textured look. The artist used fine lines to show details like the folds in clothes and the grain of the door. The dark shading makes the figures stand out against the lighter background. Next, look up etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how this technique works.
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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