Accession number
PML 4350.61
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).
Initialed "Av. O" by the artist on the flag at right.
Probably state II of III, as described by Hollstein, with the artist's monogram on the flag at right.
Mounted as item 61 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Libray's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Initialed "Av. O" by the artist on the flag at right.
Probably state II of III, as described by Hollstein, with the artist's monogram on the flag at right.
Mounted as item 61 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: 121 x 222 mm; sheet:124 x 224 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed on verso in ink by French printseller, engraver and publisher Naudet: "Chez Naudet M.d au Louvre 1817"; with a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant que deux éraillures perpendiculaires sur le ciel, entre le gros arbre et la chaumière, n'aint disparu.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a gathering of people in front of an inn at right, with dancing and drinking, a street-seller or quack doctor selling his wares to a small crowd at center, a horse-drawn cart heading towards a church at left, and groups of people gathering under awnings in the background at left.
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