Accession number
PML 4350.49
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 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).
Signed "Av. ostade" by the artist at lower left.
State V(?), as described by Hollstein, before the addition of lines to the upper right corner.
Mounted as item 49 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Signed "Av. ostade" by the artist at lower left.
State V(?), as described by Hollstein, before the addition of lines to the upper right corner.
Mounted as item 49 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 102 x 85 mm; plate mark: 104 x 89 mm; sheet: 107 x 89 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant que le coin du haut dela droite n'ait été terminé au burin.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows two wandering musicians, a flute player and a boy drummer, playing to an audience of three adults outside a house, four children gathered in the background.
Classification
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Department