Name: Antique Master Print-THREE-MEN-INN-VIOLIN PLAYER-GENRE-Suyderhoef-Ostade-c. 1725
SKU: PICTURA-12269
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Antique Master Print-THREE-MEN-INN-VIOLIN PLAYER-GENRE-Suyderhoef-Ostade-c. 1725

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‘FOUR LINES OF DUTCH VERSE BELOW IMAGE; LOWER LEFT: ‘I. COVENS ET A. MORTIER EXCUDIT.”

– Interior of a rustic inn with three peasants drinking, smoking, and making music around a small table. One plays a violin, another smokes a pipe, and a third raises a glass. The room is richly detailed with pipes, jugs, bottles, a curtained bed, and a cat on the floor. Genre scene after Adriaen van Ostade, engraved with fine cross-hatching typical of 17th-century Dutch printmaking.

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SKU: PICTURA-12269 Category: Genre Prints Tag: Figures

Description

Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 22.4 x 29.2 cm (8.82 x 11.5 inch). Image size: 22.4 x 29.2 cm. (8.82 x 11.5 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. Two pinsize holes at bottom margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

JONAS SUYDERHOEF, ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE, DUTCH GENRE SCENE, TAVERN INTERIOR, PEASANTS DRINKING, 17TH CENTURY ENGRAVING, HOLLSTEIN 21 | PCO-E30-44

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Ed. published by I. Covens & A. Mortier (Amsterdam).

State: State VI/6.

Reference: Hollstein 21; Wuss 120; D.120; Wurzbach 120.

Biography engraver: Jonas Suyderhoef (c. 1613-1686) was a Dutch engraver active in Haarlem. He is known for his reproductive engravings after leading Dutch masters, particularly genre scenes and portraits. His prints are characterized by refined burin work and careful tonal gradation.

Biography artist: Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) was a prominent Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker, celebrated for his lively depictions of peasant life, tavern interiors, and rustic genre scenes. His detailed compositions and expressive figures influenced numerous engravers, including Suyderhoef.