Getting started with the collection:
A Barbershop
Adriaen van Ostade, 1673
A hairdresser is lathering a customer’s chin, before shaving him. The man is holding a bowl himself, to catch the soap and hair. At the back of the shop, the barber – both surgeon and haircutter – is binding a patient’s shin, helped by an assistant. The shop is decorated with the mysterious implements of the barber’s trade: bottles and pots, a distiller’s flask and a mounted fish.
- Artwork typedrawing, aquarel
- Object numberRP-T-1879-A-13
- Dimensionsheight 204 mm x width 159 mm
- Physical characteristicspenseel in waterverf en dekverf in kleuren en pen in bruin