Accession number
PML 4350.4
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [1648-1650?]
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).
Mounted as item 4 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently compiled by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy closely trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted as item 4 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently compiled by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy closely trimmed to plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 70 x 57 mm; sheet: 72 x 61 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Rare épreuve tirée avant divers travaux, notamment le travail très serré à la pointe sèche, produisant l'effet du la maniere noire.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows the head and shoulders of a bearded man in a cap, turned slightly to the left.
Classification
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