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).
Lettered with the artist's name "Av. ostade" and dated "1647" on the right.
State IV, before the near completion of the outline of the shoulder at left.
Mounted as item 10 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant des travaux faits depuis au burin, sur le front du personnage et sur la vielle.
Print shows a man seated at a table and looking to the right, holding a pipe, and leaning on the back of a chair.