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The woman winding upon a reel [print].

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).
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
Department