40. Cornelis Dusart
(1660-1704)
The Violinist in a Tavern

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Dusart, The Violinist

The Violinist in a Tavern

Etching, 1685, 277 x 246 mm., Bartsch 115, Hollstein 115 iii/iii. Very fine, rich impression on heavy laid paper with narrow margins all around and in fresh condition. Dusart was a genre painter, draughtsman and printmaker in Haarlem, the student of Adriaen van Ostade and the inheritor of his studio. Although clearly influenced by his mentor, he had his own personal style, his characters more exclamatory than Ostade’s, his etching style bolder and less refined and, even in his smaller prints, the appearance of working on a larger scale. This is one of his larger prints, a wonderful and evocative image conveying the image of frenetic activity caught and captured, a moment now frozen in time.