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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Mother with two children [print].

Accession number
PML 4350.17
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1671-1679]
Notes
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).
Initialed "Av. o." by the artist at lower left.
State V, with the fine lines added to the right hand of the little girl in the foreground.
Mounted as item 16 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 87 x 67 mm; plate mark: 89 x 70; sheet: 102 x 85 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant les derniers travaux.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a woman in a doorway with half-door, holding an infant over the top of the bottom of the door as a small girl, at right, holds the baby's hands.
Classification
Department