Accession number:
PML 4350.5
Published:
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [1660-1670?]
Description:
1 print : etching ; image: 70 x 58 mm; plate mark: 73 x 60 mm; sheet: 88 x 75 mm
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).
The VIIth state, after the addition of the fine lines on the man's collar at left, but before the addition of the artist's initial's and the strengthening of the border.
Mounted as item 5 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Inscriptions/Markings:
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant le trait carré renforcé et les intiales du maître.
Provenance:
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary:
Bust of a smiling peasant wearing a cap, turned 3/4 to the right
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