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Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem 1610-Haarlem 1685)
An Evening Scene in a Tavern, with a Fiddler Signed and dated 1655
Oil on panel | 42.4 x 52.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404584
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A fiddler plays while an elderly couple sing from a sheet.This is the sort of complex, atmospherically lit, multi-figure interior which influenced Jan Steen immediately and David Wilkie a century and half later. Inscribed: 'A ostade 1655.'
Provenance
Purchased by George IV from Sir Thomas Baring as part of a group of 86 Dutch and Flemish paintings, most of which were collected by Sir Thomas’s father, Sir Francis Baring; they arrived at Carlton House on 6 May 1814; recorded in the Dining Room at Carlton House in 1819 (no 72); in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace in 1841 (no 86)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
42.4 x 52.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
61.6 x 71.2 x 5.0 cm (frame, external)
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