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The couple walking [print].

Accession number
PML 4350.32
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1647]
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).
Lettered "Av. ostade" by the artist at upper left.
State IV, with the outline of the man's hand nearly completed but before additional retouching. Cf. Godefroy and Hollstein.
Mounted as item 32 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: 78 x 62 mm; sheet: 81 x 65 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Initials in ink at lower left, "L(?)O"; with a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant les travaux repris au burin dans les ombres, notamment au dessous du bras droit de la femme.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a man and a woman walking together to the right.
Classification
Department