Street Vendor Selling Spectacles at the Door

c. 1647

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

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10.2 × 8.8 cm (4 × 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8304

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 6, State iv/viii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 837); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

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. 29, iii/vi.

1978

  • Illus. Bartsch 1978, vol.1, p.343, 29.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 29, iii/vi.

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. 6, iv/viii.

Inscriptions

in plate, within image at bottom right: Av. ostade; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 842 [underlined]; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B 29 Dav. III; bottom left, in brown ink by a later hand: 159

Wikidata ID

Q65018499

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