Accession number
PML 4350.54
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1647-1653]
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 X(?), as described by Hollstein, before the addition of fine vertical lines over the stool.
Mounted as item 54 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
State X(?), as described by Hollstein, before the addition of fine vertical lines over the stool.
Mounted as item 54 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 103 x 85 mm; sheet: 105 x 90 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant des tailles diagonales ajoutés depuis sur plusiers parties du fond, notamment entre l'homme assis près du feu et le manteau de la cheminée.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows the interior of an inn, with a man settling his bill with the hostess by the door at left, three drinkers in conversation in right background, and behind them a man holding a jug, while another tends the fire.
Classification
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