Accession number
PML 4350.47
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1671]
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).
State I/III, as described by Hollstein, before the addition of the fine lines in the shadow on the grinder's apron below the left arm.
Mounted as item 47 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
State I/III, as described by Hollstein, before the addition of the fine lines in the shadow on the grinder's apron below the left arm.
Mounted as item 47 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 84 x 73 mm; sheet: 86 x 75 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. 1ère épreuve tirée avant le trait carré renforcé, et avant le travail très serré à la pointe sèche, produisant l'effet de la manière noire.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a knifegrinder parked in front of a cobblers workshop, he bending over his portable foot-operated grinding wheel as he sharpens a knife.
Classification
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