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Interior in an Inn, called "The Skaters" (De Schaatsenrijder)
Cornelis Visscher (Dutch, c. 1629-1658)LinkedCulture matchlcp-f4e22d476508
- Date
- c. 1655
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Holland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 9385
Throughout his career, the Dutch painter Adriaen van Ostade depicted rustic genre scenes of peasants enjoying village pleasures; these had a major influence on the subject matter of Dutch art both during and after the 17th century. Cornelis Visscher’s work echoes the liveliness and warmth of Van Ostade’s, showing a merry group of peasants gathering in an interior to talk and enjoy a smoke. The small pair of skates on the floor in the center of the foreground indicates that the group may have returned from an afternoon of ice-skating, a popular leisure activity during the period.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Horace S. Oakley
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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