Accession number
PML 4350.62
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1652-1654]
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 fecit et excud." by the artist in the margin at bottom right.
State VII of IX, as described by Hollstein, with the fine lines just crossing the border at right, but before the strengthening of the right hand border.
Mounted as item 62 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Libray's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Signed "A.v. Ostade fecit et excud." by the artist in the margin at bottom right.
State VII of IX, as described by Hollstein, with the fine lines just crossing the border at right, but before the strengthening of the right hand border.
Mounted as item 62 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Libray's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 243 x 318 mm; sheet: 258 x 322 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant nombre de travaux exécutés depuis en différentes fois, soit à la pointe sèche, soit à la burin.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows the interior of an inn with a couple dancing at centre, music played by a fiddler beyond, watched by a group of men who smoke and drink, and by two women, three people descending the stairs on the left.
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