High Relief of Virgin Adoring the Christ Child
Unknown
European Art
On View:
Van Ostade’s heavy-lidded, drink-flushed peasant leans out of an ivy-covered window, beckoning to the viewer to join the revelry inside. The ringed pasglas in his right hand was employed in a popular drinking game: a player gulped beer, attempting to stop precisely at one of the ringed intervals on the glass. If he failed, the player was required to drink down to the next ring—a seemingly dubious penalty—before passing the glass to the next merrymaker. Van Ostade specialized in genre scenes of peasants at leisure or at their trades. Whether satirical or sympathetic, they were likely painted for a moneyed bourgeois class that sought images depicting the simplicity of peasant life.
MEDIUM
Wood, polychrome
ACCESSION NUMBER
34.843
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mary Babbott Ladd, Lydia Babbott Stokes, and Frank L. Babbott, Jr. in memory of their father Frank L. Babbott
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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