Accession number
PML 4350.57
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 VI, as described by Hollstein, with the fine lines added to shadows.
Mounted as item 57 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Signed "A v. ostade" by the artist at lower left.
State VI, as described by Hollstein, with the fine lines added to shadows.
Mounted as item 57 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: 155 x 108 mm; sheet: 163 x 110 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avec le travail très serré à la pointe sèche, mais devant les travaux ajoutés au burin dans les partie ombrées.
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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