Accession number
PML 4350.36
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.
State VIII, with the two parallel lines on the rock in the foreground at left, but before the extension of the vine leaves over the tree at right.
Mounted as item 36 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.
State VIII, with the two parallel lines on the rock in the foreground at left, but before the extension of the vine leaves over the tree at right.
Mounted as item 36 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 tirée avant la continuation des feuilles de vigne, et avant que partie des ombres n'ait été rentrée au burin.
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.
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