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Peasant with his hand in his cloak [print].

Accession number
PML 4350.28
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [16--]
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, before the addition of cross-hatching to the shadow near and on the feet of the figure.
Mounted as item 28 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: 86 x 62 mm; sheet: 87 x 63 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Rare épreuve tirée avant le travail à la pointe sèche, produisant l'effet de la maniere noire, sur le haut de la veste, le bras et les souliers du personnage.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a man wearing a brimmed hat, standing his hand tucked into his coat.
Classification
Department