Smoker on a Stool Conversing with a Cobbler at Work
1671
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
plate: 18.8 × 15 cm (7 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
sheet: 19.3 × 15.4 cm (7 5/8 × 6 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.8305
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 44, State vi/ix
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 839); 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. 27, viii/x.
1990
Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 27, viii/x.
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. 44, vi/ix.
Inscriptions
in plate, within image at bottom right: Av. Ostade 1671; bottom right, in black ink: A [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B 27 Dav VIII; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 839
Wikidata ID
Q65018500