The Pater Familias

1648

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 13/16 × 3 9/16 in. (12.2 × 9 cm)
Collection no.: 2011.282
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Adriaen van Ostade. The Pater Familias. Adriaen van Ostade; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives, 2011. 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 Pater Familias — Adriaen van Ostade. 1648.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 4 13/16 × 3 9/16 in. (12.2 × 9 cm).

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

Credit line: Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives, 2011.

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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