Art, literature & history
Hurdy-Gurdy Player in a Tall Hat
1647
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 11 × 9.3 cm (4 5/16 × 3 11/16 in.) sheet: 12.1 × 9.9 cm (4 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1971.30.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adriaen van Ostade. Hurdy-Gurdy Player in a Tall Hat. Adriaen van Ostade; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Hurdy-Gurdy Player in a Tall Hat — Adriaen van Ostade. 1647.
Medium: etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11 × 9.3 cm (4 5/16 × 3 11/16 in.) sheet: 12.1 × 9.9 cm (4 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1971.30.2. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.