Accession number
PML 4350.39
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1647-1652]
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).
Signed within the plate at lower right.
State III, with the border strengthened but before the shadows were retouched with vertical lines on the side of the pedlar's basket.
Mounted as item 39 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy closely trimmed to image and inlaid in narrow border.
Signed within the plate at lower right.
State III, with the border strengthened but before the shadows were retouched with vertical lines on the side of the pedlar's basket.
Mounted as item 39 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy closely trimmed to image and inlaid in narrow border.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 102 x 88 mm; sheet:102 x 88 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant les travail très serré à la pointe sèche, produisant l'effet de la maniere noire.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a man selling spectacles to a woman at her door, watched by a boy with a basket at left.
Classification
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Department