Accession number
PML 4350.24
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [1668?]
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).
State V, with the vertical lines extending into the margin above the jug, but before the scratch on the nose of the middle singer.
Mounted as item 24 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
With artist's signature within the plate in the border at bottom right.
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
State V, with the vertical lines extending into the margin above the jug, but before the scratch on the nose of the middle singer.
Mounted as item 24 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
With artist's signature within the plate in the border at bottom right.
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 219 x 187 mm; sheet: 242 x 193 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 burin, et avant le trait échappé sur le nez de l'homme appuyé contre le montant de a croisée.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a group of men, one of whom holds a song sheet, singing by candlelight at a window; a vine is shown growing across the top of the window and a jug and spoon hang above their heads.
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