Art works of Italian (Guercino, Leandro Bassano, Francesco Solimena, Lorenzo Bartolini), French (Jules Dupre, Gaspard Dughet, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant), Dutch/Flemish (Frans Hals, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Adriaen Brouwer,
Adriaen van Ostade, Justus Sustermans, Pieter Claesz), German (Johann Heinrich Roos, Friedrich August von Kaulbach) and Polish (Jan Styka) painters are displayed in the museum.
A judge heard the palace attendant stole An Elderly Couple in an Arbour, by Dutch master
Adriaen van Ostade, as well as a PS4,000 bowl and PS400 in silver cutlery, because officials didn't show sympathy when he broke his elbow.
Portraying local peasants in festive moods, in the vein of
Adriaen van Ostade, these works were sold as individual hand-coloured etchings on paper.
Elle est pratiquee par de nombreux peintres, italiens comme Michelangelo Cerquozzi (1602-1660), francais comme Jacques Callot (1592-1635) ou Sebastien Bourdon (1616-1671), neerlandais comme Jan Miel (1599-1663) ou
Adriaen Van Ostade (1610-1685).
"The Grey", by Wouwerman, who was popularly known as the horse painter, is like a composition with several figures painted in bright colours, Michael Sweerts' work titled "A Painter's Studio", which blends realism with aestheticism, and Emanuel de Witte's and
Adriaen van Ostade's works on the fish market, the popular theme of those days, are a major attraction for the visitors.
The peasant scenes of his pupils
Adriaen van Ostade and Adriaen Brouwer, although often resolutely bawdy, are more imaginative than their master's periodic lapses into respectability.
Works of Rembrandt's contemporaries and followers such as Jan Lievens, Nicolaes Maes,
Adriaen van Ostade and more are also examined in context.
Unseen gems from the Barber collection showing various portraits of children, including works by Daubigny and
Adriaen van Ostade. Until Sep 30 (Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 2pm-5pm).
After studying with
Adriaen van Ostade, at that time the preeminent painter of peasant subjects, Bega undertook an extended tour of Germany, Switzerland and France, accompanied part of the way by Vincent van der Vinne (1628-1702), a fellow Haarlem artist.
In Haarlem, where he studied with
Adriaen van Ostade, ingenuous painter of bawdy peasants (two of whose more virtuous pictures are in the Queen's Gallery), he would have encountered the more elegantly salacious scenes of Terborch, a frequent visitor.
Another surprise gleaned from the catalogue is the discovery that certain artists are under-represented in the collection, most notably the painter of peasant life
Adriaen van Ostade.
As in the pictures of
Adriaen van Ostade, the peasants are childishly apt to mirth, and childishly inquisitive.