The baker sounding his horn [print].

Accession number: 
PML 4350.9
Author: 
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
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.
State IX, retouched, with additional lines in the "V" of the neck of the shirt.
Mounted as item 9 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. Epreuve avec tous les travaux additionnels.

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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