Painter in His Studio, c. 1647

Not on View

Medium

etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.5 x 17.3 cm (9 1/4 x 6 13/16 in.)

sheet: 24.2 x 17.9 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 3, State xii/xiv

Accession Number

1943.3.8307

Artists / Makers

Adriaen van Ostade (artist) Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, in margin below image: Pictor Apellaea pingas licet arte tabellam, / Quae modo pictores, et modo fallit aves, / Livor edax sed enim, nisi te fortuna bearit, / Auferret ingenio praemia digna tuo.; in plate, in margin below image at bottom right: A.v. Ostade fecit. et. excud.; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: B32 Dav IX; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 846; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: B-10,369

Provenance

Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 846); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Rumpf, Fritz

Exhibition History

1996: Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.

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. 32, x/xii.

1990: Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 32, x/xii.

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. 3, xii/xiv.