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Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685)

The Doll (B.16)

etched copper plate, 1679, signed with monogram and dated in reverse 'Av.O 1679', with inscriptions '35/Aosna (?)' on the reverse; fourth (final) state, 90 gr.
104 x 93 mm.

Lot Essay

The preliminary study, in the same sense, signed with monogram, is in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham (Schnackenburg, op.cit., no. 216); another related drawing is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 52.626.1, possibly Schnackenburg, op.cit., I, p. 122, under no. 216). A picture of a comparable subject, signed and dated 1668, set in an interior, is in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Buckingham Palace, London (Hofstede de Groot 460).

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