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‘The Skaters’: Peasant Company in an Interior
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Compared with the often ill-natured-looking drunkards of his teacher Adriaen Brouwer, the country folk in the paintings by Adriaen van Ostade are more mildmannered. They drink and smoke, but the atmosphere is generally peaceful. The pair of skates lying on the ground inspired the painting's old, anecdotal title.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit line‘De schaatsenrijders’: boerengezelschap in interieur. c. 1656. Adriaen van Ostade. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
