Accession number
PML 4350.51
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1648-1654]
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 III, as described by Hollstein, with the fine lines in front of the woman's nose at left, and before the nearly vertical line was added to the upper arm of the woman at right.
Mounted as item 51 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
State III, as described by Hollstein, with the fine lines in front of the woman's nose at left, and before the nearly vertical line was added to the upper arm of the woman at right.
Mounted as item 51 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 101 x 89 mm; sheet: 105 x 92 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant le trait échappé sur les bras gauche de la femme qui est à droite.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows two elderly women conversing in a village street, with a trader in the background at left, weighing goods for sale to a group of customers.
Classification
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