Accession number
PML 4350.60
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1653]
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 "Av ostade" by the artist at bottom.
Mounted as item 60 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Libray's copy trimmed to image.
Signed "Av ostade" by the artist at bottom.
Mounted as item 60 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Libray's copy trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 126 x 173 mm; sheet:126 x 173 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant les derniers travaux, à droite sur le devant.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows the outside of an inn with a crowd of peasants watching others dancing under a vine-covered trellis, with a man standing above the crowd and playing a flute and drum.
Classification
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