Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The breakfast [print].

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).
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.
Classification
Department