Accession number
PML 4350.30
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], 1647.
Notes
Title 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" and dated "1647" by the artist at lower left.
State VIII, before the additional vertical hatching was added between the wheel and the border at lower right.
Mounted as item 30 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Lettered "Av. ostade" and dated "1647" by the artist at lower left.
State VIII, before the additional vertical hatching was added between the wheel and the border at lower right.
Mounted as item 30 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : etching ; sheet: 157 x 190 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Rare épreuve tirée avant le travail très serré à la pointe sèche, produisant l'effet de la maniere noire, dans les parties ombrées au bas de la droite.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows the interior of a barn, with chickens, wheelbarrow, and a woman bending over beside a ladder at far right.
Classification
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