Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE
The Anglers.

Etching, circa 1653. 113x163 mm; 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches, thread margins. Sixth state (of 7), with remnants of the delicate horizontal lines in the light patch beneath the railing to the left of the boy with the pail and with the fine horizontal lines upper right near the border line still distinct. A very good, dark and well-inked impression with strong contrasts.

With--Peasant in a Pointed Fur Cap, etching, circa 1640 * The Woman Winding Wool upon a Reel, etching, circa 1684. Bartsch 26, 3 and 25; Godefroy 26, 3 and 25.