Art, literature & history
The Knifegrinder
1610–85
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 13/16 in. (8.3 × 7.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 64.642.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adriaen van Ostade. The Knifegrinder. Adriaen van Ostade; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964. 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
The Knifegrinder — Adriaen van Ostade. 1610–85.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 13/16 in. (8.3 × 7.2 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, 1964.
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.