Adriaen van Ostade 1610-1685

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Description

Adriaen van Ostade
the family (g., holl.46)
180 by 159mm; 7 1/8 by 6 1/4 in

Etching, 1647, a fine impression of the first state (of seven), before the completion of the borderline, printing with delicate tone, on paper with a Strasbourg Lily watermark, with margins, thin spots along left margin edge, otherwise in good condition

Provenance

Ex coll. H. Brodhurst (L.1296), and following an inscription verso and on mount Mrs W.W. Carman (not in Lugt)

Catalogue Note

This state described by Godefroy as Extrêmement rare.