Accession number
PML 4350.48
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1648]
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, before the reinforcement of the border.
Mounted as item 48 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, before the reinforcement of the border.
Mounted as item 48 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 81 mm; plate mark: 105 x 85 mm; sheet: 105 x 85 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 man and a woman conversing in a village street, a dog in between them, two children near a well and a man carrying a sack in the background at left.
Classification
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