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Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage

Adriaen van Ostade · 1610–1685

Maximum print size

23.6 × 28.7 cm · 9.3 × 11.3 in

at 300 DPI from the 2,788 × 3,401 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 8×10 inch frame.

Frame: 40.6 × 50.8 cm · 16.0 × 20.0 in
Mat opening: 23.6 × 28.7 cm · 9.3 × 11.3 in
Mat border, sides: 8.6 cm · 3.4 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 11.2 cm · 4.4 in

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Details

Date: 1673
Medium: Pen and brown ink, watercolor, white heightening, over traces of graphite; framing lines by the artist (?) in pen and brown ink and gold
Type: Drawings
Size: 24.4 × 20.2 cm · 9.6 × 8.0 in
Orientation: portrait
Subjects: Children, Interiors, Men, Reading, Women
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗