Adriaen Van Ostade (Dutch, 1610 - 1685), A collection of 4 etchings. a) Title: The Peasants' Quarrel, Shows 3 men in a building fighting with pointed instruments, as a woman is seated with a small child on her lap. Created/Published: 1653. Size: 12,8 x 14,6 cm. b) Title: The Schoolmaster, probably 1644, Etching , 9,4 x 8,8 cm. c) Title: Conversation in the Street. Etching. Date: 1610–85. 9,4 x 8,5 cm d) Title: The couple. Date: 1610-85. Etching. 15,8 x 10,6. Provenance: From Walter Pach family directly to the current owner. Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, best known for his genre scenes showing tavern life and carousing peasants. Van Ostade was a pupil of Frans Hals and Adriaen Brouwer. By 1634 he had joined the Saint Luke’s Guild in Haarlem, and he seems to have been studying with Salomon van Ruysdael, who sued him in 1640 for defaulting on his payments for tuition and rent. However, by 1662 he had be a thoroughly respectable member of the artisticmunity in Haarlem, and was appointed as dean of the Guild. His pupils included his brother Isack (q.v.), Cornelis Bega, Cornelis Dusart and Jan Steen.