Accession number
PML 4350.34
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 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).
Initialed "Av.o" by the artist at lower right.
With the artist's monogram at lower right.
State IV, after the strengthening of the border and added cross-hatching on the balcony, but before the added hatching on the side of the hen-house.
Mounted as item 34 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Initialed "Av.o" by the artist at lower right.
With the artist's monogram at lower right.
State IV, after the strengthening of the border and added cross-hatching on the balcony, but before the added hatching on the side of the hen-house.
Mounted as item 34 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 95 x 76 mm; plate mark: 95 x 76 mm; sheet: 103 x 85 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Rare épreuve tirée avant le ravail très serré à la pointe sèche, produisant l'effet de la maniere noire.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a woman winding yarn at her doorway, in conversation with a man; arched design, plate rounded at top.
Classification
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