Peasant with a Crooked Back Leaning on a Stick, c. 1653

Not on View

Medium

etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 7.8 × 6.3 cm (3 1/16 × 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 42, State iv/iv (with scratch A)

Accession Number

1943.3.8299

Artists / Makers

Adriaen van Ostade (artist) Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, within image at lower right: Av.O; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B 20 Dav IV/V; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 825

Provenance

Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 825); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Rumpf, Fritz

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. 20, iv/vi.

1990: Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 20, iv/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. 42, iv/iv (with scratch A).