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Peasant with his hands behind his back [print].

Accession number
PML 4350.26
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1647]
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).
Initialed "Av. o" by the artist at lower left.
State VI, as described by Hollstein, with the fine lines at the back of the neck and extending from the armhole of the vest at right.
Mounted as item 26 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: 88 x 64 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant que les travaux n'aient été repris au burin dans les ombres.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a man wearing a cap and apron, standing 3/4 to the right, with his hands behind his back.
Classification
Department