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Interior with Slaughtered Pig

Drawing
17th century (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Ostade, Adriaen Van (formerly ascribed to)
Place of origin
Holland (drawn)

Peasant and his family assembled about the carcass of a large pig, which has been recently killed and hung up for quartering. A night scene, with the light concentrated near the animal's head.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleInterior with Slaughtered Pig (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black chalk; framing line in brown ink
Pen
Brown Ink
Brown Wash
Black Chalk
Paper
Drawing
Wash Technique
Brief description
Drawing 'Interior with Slaughtered Pig', Anonymous Dutch(?), pen and brown ink
Physical description
Peasant and his family assembled about the carcass of a large pig, which has been recently killed and hung up for quartering. A night scene, with the light concentrated near the animal's head.
Dimensions
  • Height: 158mm
  • Width: 190mm
Style
Dutch School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • 452 (Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.))
  • Ad. Ostade (Inscribed on old Dyce (?) mount, in pencil, at lower right, by Dyce)
  • 624 (Inscribed on old Dyce (?) mount, in pencil, at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.))
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
Family
Pigs
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2014), vol.II, cat.615, p.555
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.452

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O239344/interior-with-slaughtered-pig-drawing-unknown/
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