Accession number
PML 4350.58
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1654-1656]
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 "AVO" by the artist on top of barrel at lower left.
State VI, as described by Hollstein, with the fine lines added to shadows but before the horizontal lines have been to the church tower.
Mounted as item 58 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Initialed "AVO" by the artist on top of barrel at lower left.
State VI, as described by Hollstein, with the fine lines added to shadows but before the horizontal lines have been to the church tower.
Mounted as item 58 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 150 x 129 mm; sheet: 158 x 134 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant les tailles horizontales sur la tour, et avant divers autres travaux.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a fiddler and a boy with a hurdy-gurdy playing for a group of peasants who sit drinking and smoking under a tree outside an inn, a church tower in right distance.
Classification
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