A closely related study, in reverse, is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (Schnackenburg, op.cit., no. 48). As noted by Slatkes (Pelletier a.o., op.cit., p. 230), this drawing and those for The Pater Familias (B.33, see lot 31 in this sale) are all in reverse to the plates, thus in the same direction as the impressions pulled from these. Other plates dated 1647 are B.8 and 23 (see lots 6 and 21 in this sale). As observed by Ackley (C.S. Ackley, Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt, exhibition catalogue, Boston, 1981, p. 157) 'This Ostade etching is precisely the kind of image that inspired the eccentric nineteenth-century French printmaker Rodolphe Bresdin to create prints of peasant interiors swarming with detail', noting the many household tools shown in this intimate interior.