La Danse au Cabaret (Villagers Merrymaking at an Inn) / Adriaen Jansz van Ostade

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Accession Number
1949/1.115
Title
La Danse au Cabaret (Villagers Merrymaking at an Inn)
Artist Nationality
Dutch
Artist Life Dates
1610-1685
Object Creation Date
1652
Object Creation Place
Europe (continent)
Netherlands (nation)
Creation Place 1
Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2
Netherlands (nation)
Inscription
Signed, in margin: A.v. Ostade fecit et excud.
Dimensions
24.4 cm x 32.4 cm (9 5/8 in. x 12 3/4 in.)
Century
17th century
Primary Object Classification
Print
Primary Object Type
intaglio print
Secondary Object Classification
Print
Secondary Object Type
black and white print
Physical Description
This print portrays a lively interior scene in the 17th century Dutch Republic. There are many figures around the large room, including men, women, and children. At the far right a man tries to embrace a resisting woman. Beside them, a man and a woman dance while a fiddler plays and others look on. On the left, a woman tends to a child as behind her a couple descend a wooden stairway from an upper floor. There are items such as cured meat, a lantern, a chair and laundry, hanging around this room.
Subject Matter
This print by Adriaen van Ostade, one of the most important and influential seventeenth-century Dutch artists, is thought to depict a May Day celebration or a wedding feast and is one of the artist’s most complex compositions. The open space with jumbled elements in the background—a hanging chair, disorderly laundry, and stored basins and baskets—as well as the overturned stool in the foreground animate the scene, reinforcing the bustling activity and various emotions of the figures. Ostade came from a family of artists and worked as both a painter and a print-maker, specializing in depictions of peasants and genre subjects of people dancing, fighting, and generally reveling. Indeed, the source for this work—seen reversed in the print—is a painting by Ostade in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art.
Primary Keywords
dancers
groups
groups of people
inns
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1095 x 853
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Record
1949/1.115
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"La Danse au Cabaret (Villagers Merrymaking at an Inn); Adriaen Jansz van Ostade." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1949-sl-1.115/1949_1.115.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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