Accession number
PML 4350.38
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1647]
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).
Initialed "Ao" by the artist at lower left.
State IV, with the border strengthened but before the shadows were retouched on the central figure's face and jacket.
Mounted as item 38 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Initialed "Ao" by the artist at lower left.
State IV, with the border strengthened but before the shadows were retouched on the central figure's face and jacket.
Mounted as item 38 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 87 x 63 mm; plate mark: 88 x 63 mm; sheet: 97 x 73 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Rare épreuve tirée avant divers travaux, notamment [...] pointe seche, produisant l'effet de la maniere noire; ownership stamp on verso, illegible owing to the fact that the print is pasted down to album leaf.
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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