Adults and a few children watch attentively as a man bleeds a slaughtered pig. In the dark setting of a farm yard, the peasants' faces are lit by a candle held by a small boy. The intimacy of the scene is emphasized by the round shape of the depiction., Peasant family at the slaughter of a pig The pig butcher, print maker: Adriaen van Ostade, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Adriaen van Ostade, Haarlem, 1650 - 1654, paper, etching, h 118 mm × w 117 mm

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