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The Dance in the Inn
Adriaen van Ostade1652
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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- Title: The Dance in the Inn
- Creator: Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610-1684)
- Date Created: 1652
- Provenance: Rudolf Peltzer, M. Knoedler & Co., Rudolf Peltzer; (M. Knoedler & Co.)
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.608
- Medium: etching
- Inscriptions: 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.
- Department: Prints
- Culture: Netherlands, 17th century
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
- Collection: PR - Etching
- Accession Number: 1943.608
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