Standards
- van Meckenem, Ecce Homo
- Dürer, Saint Jerome
- Dürer, The Little Courier
- Dürer, The Satyr Family
- Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
- Altdorfer, The Resurrection
- Beham, Peasant Couple
- Beham or Dürer, Bookplate
- Pencz, The Life of Christ
- Davent, Musicians
- Lautensack, Landscape
- Matham, The Planets
- Callot, Balli di Sfessania
- Callot, La Chasse au Cerf
- Rembrandt, Clement de Jonghe
- Rembrandt, The Goldsmith
- Della Bella, The Five Deaths
- Ostade, The Fiddler
- Both, The Five Senses
- Nanteuil, Hardouin de Beaumont
- Visscher, A Mouse in a Mouse Trap
- Masson, Guilllaume de Brisacier
- Piranesi, A View of the Temple
- Watson, Mrs. Hale as Euphrosyne
- Moreau, Les Petits Parains
- Janinet, Le Sommeil d’Arianne
- Blake, And My Servant Job
- Unknown Engraver, Frederick
- Gericault, Horses Going to a Fair
- Jacque, Les Musiciens
- Haden, A By-Road in Tipperary
- Meryon, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont
- Bresdin, La Sainte Famille
- Whistler, Battersea Dawn
- Whistler, Limehouse
- Fantin-Latour, Manfred and Astarte
- Legros, Le Grand Canal
- Buhot, La Place des Martyrs
- Forain, Le Calvaire (2e planche)
- Pennell, In the Mist of the Morning
- Hassam, The Old Mulford House
- Zorn, "Oxenstierna"
- Toulouse-Lautrec, La Modiste
- Cameron, The Palace
- Sloan, Anshutz on Anatomy
- Bone, The Trevi Fountain, Rome
- Knight, At the Footlights
- McBey, Palestine: Blue Bonnets
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18. Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1684) The Fiddler and the Hurdy-Gurdy Boy |
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The Fiddler and the Hurdy-Gurdy Boy
Etching and burin, ca. 1660, 155 x 130 mm., Bartsch 45, Godefroy 45 iv/vi, Hollstein 45 v/vii, ex collection: Wm. Pelletier (Lugt on line 4193). Fine lifetime impression on laid paper with thread margins, the margins reinforced and extended with additional paper. Unlike later impressions of the print, the image here has depth and a range of tone and the scene comes alive. Ostade’s etchings were disparaged by many in his lifetime as being too concerned with low life. Today, they are valued not just as fine art but as accurate pictures of what ordinary life was like in seventeenth-century Holland. Pelletier’s was one of the outstanding private collections of Ostade etchings. This impression is described and illustrated in his catalog.
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$8,500.00 |  |
