Antique prints, etching | Caprice of six etchings/Zes etsen in prentboek gebonden, published 1650-1700, 6 pp.

Abraham Bloteling (1640-1690) after Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685)

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The baker sounding his horn. Inscribed at the bottom right: A.v. ostade. in. Numbered at the bottom left: 8. Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 130 x 105 mm, total: 264 x 214 mm; foxing and traces of red.Village romance. A woman and a man leaning out of a doorway. Inscribed at the bottom right: A.v. ostade. in. Numbered at the bottom left: 7. Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 129 x 103 mm, total: 266 x 213 mm; foxing at the paper s edges and stain in the margins on the left.The smoker at the window. Man with a pipe and a drinking cup leaning out of an open window. Inscribed at the bottom right: A.v. ostade. in. Numbered at the bottom left: 6. Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 129 x 103 mm, total: 266 x 213 mm; foxing at the paper s edges.Peasant leaning on his doorway. A man with a hat, leaning out of his doorway, looking outside. Inscribed at the bottom left: A. stade in . Numbered at the bottom right: 4. Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 120 x 105 mm, total: 263 x 213 mm; light foxing at the paper s edges.The painter. Frontispiece of the series, showing a painter in his studio, sitting behind his easel at the window, with a book on a stool beside him. On the painting is written: CAPRICE Ostade inv: Two assistants or pupils are preparing paint at a table under the stairs. Inscribed at the bottom left: A. Blooteling excudit. Numbered at the bottom right: 1. and numbered at the bottom "no 24 (by a later hand?). Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 120 x 103 mm, total: 266 x 212 mm; light foxing at the paper s edges and a small stain in the left margin.The pater familias. An interior with a man on chair feeding a child, and a woman and child watching. Inscribed at the bottom left: A. ostade in . Numbered at the bottom left: 2 . Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 124 x 103 mm, total: 264 x 214 mm; light foxing at the paper s edges. After Godefroy 7, 9, 10, 11, 32, 33, but not mentioned in Godefroy under his list of copies. Seller Inventory # 65716

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