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The organ grinder [print].

Accession number
PML 4350.10
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], 1647.
Notes
Title from Everyday life in Holland's golden age (catalogue of the complete etchings of Adriaen van Ostade by S.W. Pelletier & L.J. Slatke).
Lettered with the artist's name "Av. ostade" and dated "1647" on the right.
State IV, before the near completion of the outline of the shoulder at left.
Mounted as item 10 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 106 x 90 mm; sheet: 106 x 90 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant des travaux faits depuis au burin, sur le front du personnage et sur la vielle.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a man seated at a table and looking to the right, holding a pipe, and leaning on the back of a chair.
Classification
Department