Accession number
PML 4350.44
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], 1648.
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).
Signed within the plate at bottom right and dated "1648."
Mounted as item 44 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Signed within the plate at bottom right and dated "1648."
Mounted as item 44 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: 123 x 92 mm; sheet: 128 x 96 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant que l'ombres d'un des pieds de la chaise (celui du côté droit) n'ait été rentrée au burin.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a humble interior, with a couple and two children family beside a fireplace; the man sits in a chair spoon feeding a baby which he holds in his lap, the woman stands beside the fire, and a second child sits on the floor at left, eating from a bowl set on a three legged stool.
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