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Isaac van Ostade

Peasant Family in a Barn

1640s
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, and watercolor (mainly brown, gray, red, green, yellow) over traces of black chalk.
27.1 × 38.6 cm (10.7 × 15.2 in)

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