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Bust of a peasant [print].

Accession number
PML 4350.2
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [1650-1652?]
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 2 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 ; sheet: 31 x 29 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a border added in pen and brown ink; note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Epreuve avant les intiales du maître et avant le trait carré.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a the head of a woman wearing a head-scarf, turned slightly to the left
Classification
Department