Adriaen van Ostade 1610-1685

Etching, circa 1646, a very good impression of the second state (of six), printing with tone and burr on the leaves at left, with the fine hatching on the window and elsewhere, but before the strengthening of the borderline, on paper with part of a Shield watermark, trimmed to borderline, pale foxmarks and surface dirt; with g.13; 20; 21; 25; 28, fifth, fourth, fifth, second and fifth state respectively, two with margins, the others trimmed to borderline, g.13 remargined, g.20 laid down (6)

g.29 ex coll. K E von Liphart (L.1687), T Graf (L.1092^a), Dr H Fleischer (see L.1362^b); g.13 ex coll P Mariette dated 1670 (L.1778); g.20 ex coll Dr O Mascha (L.1904); g.21 ex coll. H A Kuester (L.1287^a)

This state of g.29 and 25 described by Godefroy as Très rare