Street Vendor Selling Spectacles at the Door, c. 1647

Not on View

Medium

etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 10.5 x 8.9 cm (4 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.)

sheet: 10.8 x 9.2 cm (4 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 6, State iv/viii

Accession Number

1991.203.2

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;

Marks and Labels

Thomas Philipe (Lugt 2451a)

Provenance

Thomas Philipe [c. 1740-1816], London and Edinburgh (Lugt 2451a); Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch [1806-1884], London and Dalkeith (Lugt 402); Henry and Judith Rice Millon; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Millon, Henry A., Professor and Mrs.
Philipe, Thomas

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, iii/vi.

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