Street Vendor Selling Spectacles at the Door, c. 1647

Not on View

Medium

etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10.2 × 8.6 cm (4 × 3 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 6, State i/viii

Accession Number

1944.2.47

Artists / Makers

Adriaen van Ostade (artist) Dutch, 1610 - 1685

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, within image at bottom right: Av. ostade; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: I. Z [?]

Provenance

Thomas Philipe [c. 1740-1816], London and Edinburgh (Lugt 2451a); Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch [1806-1884], London and Dalkeith (Lugt 402); (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1943; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Buccleuch, Walter Francis, 5th Duke of
Philipe, Thomas
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 29, i/vi.

1990: Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 29, i/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. 6, i/viii.