Bust of a peasant [print].

Accession number: 
PML 4350.2
Author: 
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
Published: 
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [1650-1652?]
Description: 
1 print : etching ; sheet: 31 x 29 mm
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).
Mounted as item 2 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently compiled by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Library's copy closely trimmed to plate mark.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

With a border added in pen and brown ink; note by former owner in pencil on sheet below mounted print: Epreuve avant les intiales du maître et avant le trait carré.

Provenance: 
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary: 

Print shows a the head of a woman wearing a head-scarf, turned slightly to the left

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