Accession number
PML 4350.56
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 "A v. ostade" by the artist at lower left.
State III, as described by Hollstein, before the fine lines have been added to shadows.
Mounted as item 56 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Signed "A v. ostade" by the artist at lower left.
State III, as described by Hollstein, before the fine lines have been added to shadows.
Mounted as item 56 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 155 x 108 mm; plate mark: 163 x 113 mm; sheet: 164 x 118 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. 1ère épreuve tirée 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 an elderly hunchbacked fiddler playing outside a house to a woman holding a baby, a seated man smoking a pipe, and a boy with a hoop.
Classification
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