Accession number
PML 4350.46
Creator
Basse, Willem, 1613 or 1614-1672.
Published
[Netherlands?] : [publisher not identified], [16--]
Notes
Etching formerly attributed to Adriaen van Ostade by Bartsch; Hollstein tentatively reattributes the print to Willem Basse, and notes that the print is after a drawing by A. Victoryns in the Museum in Budapest.
Titles from Hollstein.
Mounted as item 46 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Titles from Hollstein.
Mounted as item 46 into an album of 63 etchings by van Ostade, evidently created by collecter Achille Seilliere (PML 4350).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 154 x 193 mm; plate mark: 154 x 194 mm; sheet: 163 x 203 mm
Provenance
From the library of Baron Achille Seilliere; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Print shows a seated woman picking fleas or lice from the head of a man, who sits on the ground leaning against her knee; a standing peasant on the right inspects the inside of a jug; on the far right, in the background, a child stands eating from a bowl, which is set upon a wooden chest; a white cat crouches between the child and the standing peasant.
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