Baker Sounding His Horn

c. 1648

Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Adriaen van Ostade

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 10.1 x 8.6 cm (4 x 3 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 11.5 x 10 cm (4 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8290

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 17, State vi/viii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 802); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1964; vol. XV, no. 7, vi/ix.

1978

  • Illus. Bartsch 1978, vol.1, p.329, 7.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 7, vi/ix.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Adriaen van Ostade, Paolo Giordani and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2023: no. 17, vi/viii.

Inscriptions

in plate, within image at top left: AV.OSTADE; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B7 Dav V; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 802

Wikidata ID

Q65018485

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