?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE The Spectacle Seller.
Etching and drypoint, circa 1646. 103x90 mm; 4 1/8x3 1/2 inches, small margins. Second state (of 6), before the strengthening of the border line and additional darkening of the shadows and with crisp, square plate corners. Partial Phoenix watermark (Godefroy 33-36, which he dates to around 1650 and notes for the earliest impressions of Van Ostade's etchings). Ex-ciollection Henry Brodhurst (Lugt 1296, verso); and Adalbert von Lanna (Lugt 2773, verso). A brilliant, early and richly-inked impression, with burr in the window panes.
According to Godefroy, extremely scarce ("RR") in this state. Bartsch 29; Godefroy 29.
