Accession number
PML 4350.63
Creator
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1647-1652]
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).
Lettered with the artist's name, "A.v. Ostade", at bottom left.; with caption at bottom: Securae reddamus tempora mensae / venit post multa una serena dies. / Tibull.
Mounted as item 63 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Lettered with the artist's name, "A.v. Ostade", at bottom left.; with caption at bottom: Securae reddamus tempora mensae / venit post multa una serena dies. / Tibull.
Mounted as item 63 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 199 x 257 mm; plate mark: 221 x 262 mm; sheet: 224 x 270 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With a note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Adriaen van Ostade. Epreuve tirée avant les travaux ajoutés depuis en différentes fois, notamment les contre-taille diagonale sur le montant du châssis de la porte d'entrée de la maison.
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a group of peasants having a meal at a round table; on the left a boy feeds a baby from a tankard; towards the centre two men drink and smoke, while on the right two others encourage a woman to drink.
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