Accession number
PML 4350.6
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [1645-1647?]
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).
Initialed "Av. o" within the design at upper left.
State VII, with the addition of the fine lines in the shadows.
Mounted as item 6 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Initialed "Av. o" within the design at upper left.
State VII, with the addition of the fine lines in the shadows.
Mounted as item 6 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 69 x 54 mm; sheet: 71 x 57 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant que la léger travail à la pointe sèche n'est disparu.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Oval design of a man wearing a cap and smoking a pipe, facing 3/4 to the left, with his arm resting on a table at right.
Classification
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