Hurdy-Gurdy Player in a Tall Hat

1647

Adriaen van Ostade

Artist, Dutch, 1610 - 1685

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11 × 9.5 cm (4 5/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 13 × 11.5 cm (5 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8321

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 10, State v/viii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil [1778 - 1864], Paris, (L.2199); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 804); 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. 8, iv/v.

1990

  • Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 8, iv/v.

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. 10, v/viii.

Inscriptions

in plate, in background at right: Av. ostade / 1647; verso, upper left, in graphite by a later hand: 8; bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B.8 Dav IV; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: B.196 804

Wikidata ID

Q65018515


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