Smoker leaning on the back of a chair [print].
Accession number:
PML 4350.7
Published:
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [16--]
Description:
1 print : etching ; sheet: 108 x 94 mm
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).
Signed "Av. ostade" in border at lower left.
State V, before the addition of the small line on the brim of the hat above the right temple.
Mounted as item 7 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Inscriptions/Markings:
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant un petit trait échappé sur le bord du bonnet, entre l'oeil et l'oreille du personnage.
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.
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