Accession number
PML 4350.41
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], 1652.
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).
Signed by the artist and dated "1652" within the plate at lower right.
State III, with fine lines added to the space on the stable door next to the head of the sitting pig, but before the completion of the outlines of the board between the pigs and the cellar door.
Mounted as item 41 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Signed by the artist and dated "1652" within the plate at lower right.
State III, with fine lines added to the space on the stable door next to the head of the sitting pig, but before the completion of the outlines of the board between the pigs and the cellar door.
Mounted as item 41 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 136 x 175 mm; plate mark: 140 x 177 mm; sheet:144 x 182 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. 1ère très rare épreuve tirée avant grand nombre de travaux exécuté en differentes fois, notamment les tailles diagonales sous le ventre du cochon couché.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a seated woman spinning yarn at a doorway, accompanied by a man and a child; on the left, two pigs outside their stable.
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