Accession number
PML 4350.25
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [1670?]
Notes
Title and suggeted 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 right.
Mounted as item 25 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Initialed "Av. o" by the artist at lower right.
Mounted as item 25 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 65 x 59 mm; sheet: 78 x 63 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant que les imperfections du cuivre n'aint disparu.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a man with a crooked back, standing in profile to the left; he stoops and holds a walking stick; beveled plate rounded at top, with arched border.
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