Village Surgeon, 1782-1785

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series Title

Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets) [plate 5]

Medium

color etching and aquatint

Dimensions

mount: 48.8 × 33.7 cm (19 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16 × 12.8 cm (6 5/16 × 5 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1948.11.263

Artists / Makers

Maria Catharina Prestel (artist) German, 1747 - 1794

Adriaen van Ostade (artist after) Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, in image, upper center: A. Ostade [in reverse]; in plate, below image, at right: No 5.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin d'Adrian van Ostade / Du Cabinet de Monsieur Jean Frederic Ettling à Francfort sur le Mein. / M. Cath. Prestel sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius