Four Men at a Window, One Reading from a Sheet by Candlelight
c. 1653
Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 23.8 x 18.9 cm (9 3/8 x 7 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.8298
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 36, State iv/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 824); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1953
Old Master Etchings and Engravings, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, 1953.
1960
Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Art Museum, 1960, no. 72, repro.
1971
A Selection of 17th Century Intaglio Prints from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971-1972, no. 26.
1996
Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.
2000
Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.
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. 19, iv/vii.
1990
Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 19, iv/vii.
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. 36, iv/vi.
Inscriptions
in plate, in margin below image at bottom right: A. v. Ostade fecit et excud.; verso, top center, in graphite by a later hand, upside down: B-19; center right, in graphite by a later hand: 824 [underlined]; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B.19 Dav IV.; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 8
Wikidata ID
Q65018493