拍品专文
A preliminary study, in the same sense and incised, is in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (Schnackenburg, op.cit., no. 204).
Both Schnackenburg and Slatkes date this plate to after 1670. The geometrical fragment on the reverse of the plate shows the left half of a plate originally used to print the illustration of a rectangle in Juan Alfonso de Molina Cano's Descubrimientos Geométricos, Antwerp, 1598. Ostade used the other half of this plate for his etching B.25 (see lot 23 in this sale), which is dated to circa 1671 by Slatkes. Ostade's etchings B.36 and B.39 are also done on a plate used for de Molina Cano's book (see lots 33 and 36 in this sale). For further information see p. .. in this catalogue.
Both Schnackenburg and Slatkes date this plate to after 1670. The geometrical fragment on the reverse of the plate shows the left half of a plate originally used to print the illustration of a rectangle in Juan Alfonso de Molina Cano's Descubrimientos Geométricos, Antwerp, 1598. Ostade used the other half of this plate for his etching B.25 (see lot 23 in this sale), which is dated to circa 1671 by Slatkes. Ostade's etchings B.36 and B.39 are also done on a plate used for de Molina Cano's book (see lots 33 and 36 in this sale). For further information see p. .. in this catalogue.