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The smoker [print].

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.
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
Department