Accession number
PML 4350.22
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1671-1679]
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).
State II, with fine lines added to the tip of the back brim of the schoolmaster's hat.
Mounted as item 22 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
With artist's monogram and date of "1679" within the plate at lower right.
State II, with fine lines added to the tip of the back brim of the schoolmaster's hat.
Mounted as item 22 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
With artist's monogram and date of "1679" within the plate at lower right.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 88 x 80 mm; plate mark 104 x 92 mm; sheet: 93 x 84 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant divers travaux ajoutés depuis au burin dans les parties ombrées .
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a village school, with a man sitting at table on the left and listening as a pupil standing at the opposite end of the table reads a book; two other children look on; on the left, a print hanging from the wall.
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