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Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685)

The hunchbacked Fiddler (B.44)

etched copper plate, signed in reverse 'Av.ostade', with inscriptions '9/6/N/O' on the reverse; sixth (final) state, 172 gr.
165 x 115 mm.

Lot Essay

The preliminary study for this, in the same sense though apparently not incised, is in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg (Schnackenburg, op.cit., no. 70). Following Godefroy, Schnackenburg erroneously described this plate as dated 1654 (op.cit., p. 46), while Slatkes dates it to circa 1654.

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