Accession number
PML 4350.53
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1652]
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).
Mounted as item 53 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Mounted as item 53 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 112 x 113 mm (circular); plate mark: 117 x 116 mm; sheet: 123 x 123 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant les travaux faits depuis à la planche, notamment la taille horizontale sur le poteau qui soutient la treille.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a night scene with a group of peasants standing at center, and watching a pig being slaughtered by a man who kneels on its flank, a woman holding a pan ready to receive the entrails; circular design.
Classification
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