Peasant with Hands Behind his Back

1610–85

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 7/16 × 2 3/8 in. (8.7 × 6.1 cm)
Collection no.: 51.501.479
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Adriaen van Ostade. Peasant with Hands Behind his Back. Adriaen van Ostade; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Peasant with Hands Behind his Back — Adriaen van Ostade. 1610–85.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 3 7/16 × 2 3/8 in. (8.7 × 6.1 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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