8. Adriaen van Ostade
(1610-1685)

The Hunchbacked Fiddler

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Ostade, The Hunchbacked Fiddler

The Hunchbacked Fiddler

Etching, 1654, 155 x 110 mm., Davidsohn 44 ii/v; Godefroy 44 iii/vi; Hollstein 44 iii/vi, Boon/Verbeek 44 iii/vi. Fine, early impression, rare in this state on laid paper with no visible watermark. According to Pelletier, no impression earlier than iii/vi is known today. Trimmed inside the platemark but outside the borderline; tiny loss lower left.