Accession number:
PML 4350.8
Published:
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1648?]
Description:
1 print : etching ; image: 101 x 86 mm; sheet: 101 x 86 mm
Notes:
Title and suggested date 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" on a beam at top left.
Mounted as item 8 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Inscriptions/Markings:
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Rare epreuve tirée avant grand nombre des travaux, notamment le travail tres serré à la pointe sèche, produisant l'effet de la maniere noire.
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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