Quack Doctor Presenting his Potions to a Group of Bystanders
1648
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): 15 × 12.4 cm (5 7/8 × 4 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.8313
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 18, State i/x
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalila (Lugt 567); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d and 1760b), 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. 43, i/ix.
1990
Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 43, i/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. 18, i/x.
Inscriptions
in plate, within image at bottom left: Av ostade 1648; verso, top right, in graphite by a later hand: E E 699; bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 128
Wikidata ID
Q65018507