Buste van een zingende boer 1615 - 1665

"Buste van een zingende boer" is an etching by Coenraet Waumans, a Dutch artist who lived from 1619 to 1681. The artwork, which is housed in the Rijksmuseum, depicts a close-up portrait of a peasant singing. This detailed etching, created between 1615 and 1665, captures the peasant's expressive face, emphasized by the use of shading and cross-hatching, as he sings into a cup, which was a common practice during that period. Waumans was renowned for his skilled rendering of human figures and for his use of realistic detail, a hallmark of the Dutch Golden Age, and is often referred to as an "etching after Adrian Brouwer." This etching is a prime example of his ability to capture the essence of everyday life.