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Small Girl Playing with a Baby in the Arms of its Mother

Adriaen van Ostade
1610-1685

Small Girl Playing with a Baby in the Arms of its Mother

3 1/2 x 2 11/16 inches (90 x 69 mm)
Pen and brown ink, watercolor in varying shades of black, gray, orange, red, green, blue, violet, and pink, with some opaque white, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
I, 131

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at the lower right, in brown ink, "Av.(in ligature) ostade".
Inscribed on the verso, at lower left, in the hand of Goll van Franckenstein, in brown ink, "N 3504"; below t this, in another hand, also in brown ink, "CJ Nieuwenhuys 1840"; at lower left corner, in still another hand, in black ink, "No.["o" in superscript] 39-" [crossed out]; and at center (upside down), in graphite, "49".
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam, fragment (similar to Heawood, no. 429 or 365: 1665 or Amsterdam, 1685).
Associated names
Testas de Jonge, Pieter, 1702-1784, former owner.
Broyel, Abraham van, d. ca. 1759, former owner.
Marsbag, Daniel, d. ca. 1775, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, J. (Johann), 1722-1785, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Johan, 1756-1821, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Pieter Hendrik, 1787-1832, former owner.
Claussin, Ignace-Joseph de, 1795-1844, former owner.
Nieuwenhuys, C. J., 1799-1883, former owner.
Holford, Robert Stayner, 1808-1892, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 131, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 192.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department