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The backgammon players [print].

Accession number
PML 4350.50
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1668]
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 "Av. ostade" by the artist at bottom.
State IV(?), as described by Hollstein, before the additional cross-hatching to the back wall.
Mounted as item 50 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: 83 x 73 mm; sheet: 85 x 75 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant divers travaux exécutés en différents fois.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows the interior of a tavern with two peasants playing backgammon, watched by two others; another man, holding a jug, looking out of an open leaded light window in right foreground.
Classification
Department