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The pigkillers [print].

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).
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
Department