The singers
1667
Several figures crowd around a rustic window frame, their faces glowing in the warm light of a single candle as one of them reads lyrics from a sheet of paper. Adriaen van Ostade, a master of Dutch Golden Age genre scenes, loved depicting the everyday lives of peasants, often with a touch of humor and warmth. This 1667 etching captures a cozy, communal moment of music-making, showing how even simple gatherings were full of life and character in 17th-century Holland. The inscription at the bottom reveals Ostade not only created the print but published it himself!
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