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The smoker and the drinker [print].

Accession number
PML 4350.33
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1671-1679]
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 III, before the strengthening of the border.
Mounted as item 33 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: 78 x 60 mm; sheet: 81 x 62 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant divers travaux, et avant que le trait carré n'ait été fortement rentrée au burin.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows two men, one seated at right smoking a pipe, and the other standing at left with a cup in his hand; a three legged stool stands between them and a jug is in the foreground at left.
Classification
Department