Knifegrinder at Work Outside a Cobbler's Workshop, c. 1653

Not on View

etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

plate: 8.5 × 7.4 cm (3 3/8 × 2 15/16 in.)

sheet: 9.1 × 8.2 cm (3 9/16 × 3 1/4 in.)

New Hollstein, no. 38, State i/iii

1945.5.99

Adriaen van Ostade (artist) Dutch, 1610 - 1685

in plate, within image at bottom right: Av. ostade; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B. 36 Dav. [?] S.I

(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1945; gift to NGA, 1945..

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 36, i/iii.

1990: Godefroy, Louis. The Complete Etchings of Adriaen van Ostade. San Francisco, 1990: no. 36, i/iii.

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. 38, i/iii.