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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The slaughtering of a pig was a subject treated by a number of Dutch seventeenth-century genre painters. It represented a decisive moment in the lives of poorer families with many mouths to feed, but who may have only owned one or two animals. The composition of this work originates from The Pigkillers or The Pork Butchers by Adriaen van Ostade. His paintings were highly popular, renowned for their astute and often humorous social commentary on the life of Dutch peasants. The Plymouth picture was probably derived from an etching of the original, the first of which were made around 1642. | Subjects: | everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Smit, G. J. (Dutch(?) artist, active late 18th century?) Æ After Ostade, Adriaen van (Dutch draftsman and painter, 1610-1685) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8498... | Go to resource |
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