Art, literature & history
Knife Fight Among Peasants
1653
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.5 × 14.5 cm (4 15/16 × 5 11/16 in.) sheet: 13.6 × 15.6 cm (5 3/8 × 6 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1945.5.98
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adriaen van Ostade. Knife Fight Among Peasants. Adriaen van Ostade; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Knife Fight Among Peasants — Adriaen van Ostade. 1653.
Medium: etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 12.5 × 14.5 cm (4 15/16 × 5 11/16 in.) sheet: 13.6 × 15.6 cm (5 3/8 × 6 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1945.5.98. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.