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Lot 123
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Adriaen van Ostade 1610-1685

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Description

  • Adriaen van Ostade
  • the hunchbacked fiddler (g., holl.44)
  • 163 by 112mm; 6 1/2 by 4 1/2 in
  • 103 by 87mm; 4 by 3 3/4 in
Etching, circa 1654, third state (of six), before the strengthening of the shadows on the fiddler's hat and elsewhere, on paper with a Fleur-de-Lys in Crowned Shield watermark, with thread margins in upper right, trimmed on or just within platemark elsewhere; with g.38, fourth state (of six), with margins, a very small paper loss at extreme edge of sheet in upper right, otherwise in good condition (2)

Catalogue Note

This state of g.38 described by Godefroy as Très rare.