Two men indoors under a thatched roof, smoking and drinking; representing pastimes in winter. Etching by F. Basan after A. van Ostade.

A Paris : chès F. Basan graveur ; A Amsterdam : chès P. Fouquet junior, [between 1700 and 1799]

1 print : etching ; platemark 29.7 x 23.2 cm

Le passe-tems de l'hiver. Is. Ostade p. ; F. Basan sc.

Not found in Hofstede de Groot's list of works by Isak van Ostade (op. cit., pp. 439-553), but listed in his list of works by Adriaen Ostade (op. cit. pp. 215-216, no. 246, as "Two peasants smoking and drinking in a cottage" in the Vienna Academy, signed and dated 1642)

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, vol. III, London 1910, pp. 215-216

Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome II, Paris 1933, pp. 119-120, no. 114 ("Boire et fumer, en se chauffant, comme font deux paysans dans une soupente")

Wellcome Collection 39019i