1652
ink
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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Two Peasant Women Conversing on a Village Street is a 1652 ink by Adriaen van Ostade, a Baroque work, depicting Visitation, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two women talking on a village street in this etching. They're standing near a building, dressed in simple clothes. The scene is quiet and everyday. The women's conversation seems casual, like they're discussing daily life. Their body language suggests they're friends or neighbors. This scene is created using a technique called etching, which involves scratching a design into a metal plate, and you can learn more about this method by looking into the technique: etching.
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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