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The empty jug [print].

Accession number
PML 4350.20
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1653]
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 "Av. ostade" by the artist at lower left.
State VIII, retouched, with the horizontal board on the door nearly indistinct and reduced to a series of vertical lines.
Mounted as item 19 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 96 x 89 mm; sheet: 104 x 90 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée de la planche avec tous les travaux additionnels.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows three men around a table, inspecting an empty jug.
Classification
Department