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The Artist
The Painter
The Artist
Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1684)
1667?
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Platemark: 32.4 × 17.3 cm (12 3/4 × 6 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 23.5 × 17.4 cm (9 1/4 × 6 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 23.5 × 17.4 cm (9 1/4 × 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Josiah Bradlee
Accession NumberM19568
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Godefroy 032; Wurzbach 33, ix; Bartsch 32
InscriptionsIn plate, below image: Pictor Apellea pingas licet arte tabellam / Quae modo pictores, et modo fallit aves, / Livor edax sed enim, nisi te fortuna bearit / Auferet ingenio praemia digno tuo
In plate, lower right: A. V. Ostade fect. et excud.
In plate, lower right: A. V. Ostade fect. et excud.
ProvenanceJosiah Bradlee (b. 1937 - d. 1902), Boston, MA; December 19, 1902, gift of Mrs. Josiah Bradlee (Alice Crowninshield Bradlee, b. 1839 - d. 1926) Boston, MA, to the MFA.