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The Dance in the Inn

1652

Adriaen van Ostade

(Dutch, 1610–1684)

Netherlands, 17th century

Etching

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1943.608

Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein XV.65.49

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

With the stomping figures and gathering of drinking, smoking, and canoodling revelers, Ostade captured the raw spirit of tavern music and the earthy vitality of peasant songs. The tree visible behind the fiddler suggests that this may be a May Day celebration, whose festivities heralded the arrival of spring.

Provenance
Rudolf Peltzer
M. Knoedler & Co.
Rudolf Peltzer; (M. Knoedler & Co.)
Exhibition history

Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 18-June 8, 1959).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

Prints by Rembrandt and His Circle. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-May 25, 1984).

Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).

Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.608