Adriaen van Ostade, “Customers Conversing in a Tavern,” 1671, oil on panel. – Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The oil-on-panel work, “Customers Conversing in a Tavern” (1671 ...

Museums & Institutions This Adriaen van Ostade Painting, Once Coveted by Hitler, Has Found a New Home at MFA Boston. The 17th-century work was once destined for the Führermuseum.

Van Ostade, who died in 1685, was renowned for his contributions to the Dutch Golden Age of painting. His work focused on scenes from everyday life rather than historical or biblical moments. ...

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston has unveiled the painting Customers Conversing in a Tavern (1671) by Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade—which had once been acquired by associates ...

Van Ostade was just being a realist … with a healthy dose of toilet humor. King George IV bought the oil-on-wood painting while he was still heir to the throne, and hung it in his London house.

This painting is characteristic of Isaac can Ostade's work produced at the height of his career in the mid-1640s, shortly before his untimely demise. Although only active as a painter for about a ...

The museum and donors have reached a resolution with the heirs of two Jewish art dealers to retain a 17th-century Dutch painting by Adriaen van Ostade.