Art, literature & history
Smoker on a Stool Conversing with a Cobbler at Work
1671
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 18.8 × 15 cm (7 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 19.3 × 15.4 cm (7 5/8 × 6 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.8305
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adriaen van Ostade. Smoker on a Stool Conversing with a Cobbler at Work. 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
Smoker on a Stool Conversing with a Cobbler at Work — Adriaen van Ostade. 1671.
Medium: etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 18.8 × 15 cm (7 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 19.3 × 15.4 cm (7 5/8 × 6 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.8305. 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.