Interior in an Inn, called "The Skaters" (De Schaatsenrijder)
Cornelis Visscher
1649–1658
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 42.7 × 34.5 cm (16 13/16 × 13 5/8 in.); Plate: 43.6 × 35.2 cm (17 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 45.6 × 37.1 cm (18 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- engraving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
engravingprintprints and drawinginteriorpaper (fiber product)
About
Throughout his career, the Dutch painter Adriaen van Ostade depicted rustic genre scenes of peasants enjoying village pleasures; these had a major influence on the subject matter of Dutch art both during and after the 17th century. Cornelis Visscher’s work echoes the liveliness and warmth of Van Ostade’s, showing a merry group of peasants gathering in an interior to talk and enjoy a smoke. The small pair of skates on the floor in the center of the foreground indicates that the group may have returned from an afternoon of ice-skating, a popular leisure activity during the period.
