Scène de Bistrot

Scène de bistrot is a wonderful black and white etching with burin interventions on paper realized by an anonymous artist , after the Flemish artist  Adrian Van Ostade (1610-1685).

A beautiful scene of raw realism in a tavern with diners portrayed in their everyday life, smoking, or pouring wine, with curious women looking at and hearing the conversations of the bystanders.

The image is also intact, except for some discolorations; the sheet has visible foxing along the margins. Generally in good conditions, this old master's original print has preserved all its charme until today.

Including a beige cardboard passepartout: 39 x 30 cm.

Adrian Van Ostade  (1610-1685) was a  Flemish painter, one of the most popular in Holland , famous for his genre paintings, and above all for his scenes of ordinary peasant life. Today, he can be admired in large collections in the major European Capitals like St. Petersburg and London. Buckingham Palace preserves a large number of his artworks.