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The Spectacle Seller

c. 1647–52

Adriaen van Ostade

(Dutch, 1610–1684)
Culture
Netherlands
Medium
etching
Credit Line
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. 1924.651
Catalogue raisonné
Hollstein XV.36.29
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
A vertically oriented print in dense, fine-hatched lines depicts figures with light skin tones. On the right, a man in a wide-brimmed hat and cloak carries a flat basket, extending spectacles toward a figure leaning over a cottage half-door. A shadowy figure waits inside the doorway. In the lower left, a child with their back turned stands near a basket. Textured cross-hatching defines weathered wooden walls and stony ground.

The Spectacle Seller

c. 1647–52

Adriaen van Ostade

(Dutch, 1610–1684)
Netherlands

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