Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685)
Lot 636

Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685)

Peasant with a crooked Back (B., Holl., G. 20)

Closed7 July 2011

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Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685)
Peasant with a crooked Back (B., Holl., G. 20)
etching, circa 1675, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good impression of the rare third state (of five), trimmed on or just within the platemark but outside the borderline on three sides, with margins outside the arched platemark above, a soft diagonal crease across the sheet, otherwise in very good condition; with Peasant with his Hands behind his Back (B., Holl., G. 21), etching, circa 1640, on laid paper, with an unidentified watermark fragment, a fine impression of the extremely rare second state (of three), with narrow margins, a collector's mark faintly visible recto, otherwise in very good condition
P. 75 x 61 mm., S . 77 x 61 mm. (G. 20)
P. 88 x 64 mm., S. 89 x 67 mm. (G. 21)

Dr. Z. Bruck (not in Lugt). (G. 20)
Carlo de Poortere (1917-2002), Belgium (L. 3467). (G. 20, 21)
E. V. Rouir (b. 1919), Belgium (L. 2156a). (G. 20, 21)