Accession number
PML 4350.37
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], 1671.
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" by the artist and dated "1671" at right.
Signed and dated "1671" within the plate at bottom right.
State X, as described by Hollstein.
Mounted as item 37 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark.
Lettered "Av. ostade" by the artist and dated "1671" at right.
Signed and dated "1671" within the plate at bottom right.
State X, as described by Hollstein.
Mounted as item 37 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 173 x 146 mm; sheet: 175 x 148 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve de la planche entierement terminée.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a cobbler kneeling at work in a small wooden stall, accompanied by a man, smoking; on the roof of the staff is a sleeping dog.
Classification
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