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Adriaen van Ostade 1610-1685
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Description
- Adriaen van Ostade
- the doll (g., holl.16)
- Both 102 by 91mm; 4 1/8 by 3 3/4 in
Etching, 1679, a fine impression of the first state (of four), before the strengthening of the borderline, with margins, very few pale foxmarks; with a duplicate of g.16, second state (of four), a fine, rich impression, with thread margins at lower right, trimmed to borderline elsewhere, folds and remains of sanguine from previous squaring, a small repair in shadow of door at left (2)
Provenance
The first state of g.16 ex coll. Dr R Alianello (L.5k), Dr O Schäfer, his sale Kornfeld 24 June 1992, lot 219 (not in Lugt)
Catalogue Note
The first state of g.16 described by Godefroy as Très rare