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

The smoker at the window [print].

Accession number
PML 4350.12
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1648-1650]
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" at bottom left.
Mounted as item 12 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
State III as described by Hollstein.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 180 x 154 mm; plate mark: 198 x 157; sheet: 205 x 163 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant divers travaux ajoutér depuis au burin, principalement au bonnet et au front du personnage.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a man wearing a hat, holding a pipe and tankard, and leaning on a window frame.
Classification
Department