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Man with a Tankard at a Window
Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1685)LinkedCulture matchlcp-790a3c7fb476
- Date
- 1650–60
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 57643
This man’s amused expression and casual pose—leaning jauntily against a window frame with a tankard in his hand—are typical of Adriaen van Ostade’s scenes of bemused figures. The artist was one of the great chroniclers of gaiety and folly in the latter half of the 17th century, having established the Dutch taste for smallscale scenes of figures drinking and smoking at windows. Picturesque details like the vines and leaded glass above the man’s head can be found in other small paintings by Van Ostade of women at windows, suggesting that he may have conceived of these cheerful works in pairs.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Provenance
- Demidoff Collection [Durand-Ruel invoice, July 17, 1890; copy in curatorial object file]. Gustave Rothan (1822-1890), Paris, until 1890; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 29, 1890, lot 80 to Durand-Ruel as agent for Martin A. Ryerson [annotated sale catalogue and shipping receipt from Durand-Ruel to Ryerson in curatorial object file]; Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago, 1890 to 1932 [shipping receipt from Durand-Ruel to Ryerson in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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