Accession number
PML 4350.21
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], 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).
Lettered Av. o." and dated 1679 [9 over 8]" at lower right.
State III, before the additional work on the window frame at upper left.
Mounted as item 21 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.
Lettered Av. o." and dated 1679 [9 over 8]" at lower right.
State III, before the additional work on the window frame at upper left.
Mounted as item 21 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: 101 x 90 mm; plate mark 104 x 92 mm; sheet: 111 x 100 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, au coin supérieur à gauche.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a family scene outside a rustic house, with a woman sitting with her child on her lap at left, showing him a doll while her husband looks on.
Classification
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