Accession number
PML 4350.55
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], 1648.
Notes
Title 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 right; dated "1648" in the plate in Godefroy states I and II.
State VI, as described by Hollstein, before the fine vertical lines on the lower lip of the bung hole of the barrel.
Mounted as item 55 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 right; dated "1648" in the plate in Godefroy states I and II.
State VI, as described by Hollstein, before the fine vertical lines on the lower lip of the bung hole of the barrel.
Mounted as item 55 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 148 x 122 mm; plate mark: 149 x 123 mm; sheet: 153 x 125 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Rare épreuve tirée avant nombre des travaux faits depuis en diverses fois, soit à la pointe, soit en burin, et en dernier lieu à l'eau-forte.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a quack doctor selling his medicines by a tent near a tree; a group of peasants, a man, a woman and three children, gather around his makeshift stall; at left a group of four children stand looking on; arched design rounded at top, from beveled plate.
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