Accession number
PML 4350.59
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], 1647.
Notes
Title 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 and dated "1647" at lower right.
Probably state V, as described by Hollstein, with the outline of the chopper on the wall completed.
Mounted as item 59 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
The Library owns a preparatory study by the artist for this etching, cataloged under the same title, and held by Morgan's Dept. of Drawings and Prints (see III, 195).
Signed "Av ostade" by the artist and dated "1647" at lower right.
Probably state V, as described by Hollstein, with the outline of the chopper on the wall completed.
Mounted as item 59 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
The Library owns a preparatory study by the artist for this etching, cataloged under the same title, and held by Morgan's Dept. of Drawings and Prints (see III, 195).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 174 x 154 mm; plate mark: 179 x 158; sheet: 224 x 180 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant divers travaux rentrés au burin, dans les parties ombrées.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows an Interior of a peasant cottage, with a mother in front of a fire-place feeding a baby in right foreground, and behind her a youth eating at a table and another feeding scraps to a dog, the father slicing some bread or cheese, a ladder leading to a loft at top right, various utensils stored on shelves including large pots and a cleaver on the wall, a child's cot near a doorway and bed in left background, some hams hanging at top right. Cf. BM catalog online.
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