annot be determined with certainty, for onlyeight of his prints from 1647 till after 1670 (the last date167- is illegible) bear any date. Like Rembrandt, Ostade ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 181 seems to have begun his experiments in etching withcasual and rapid studies of single figures and small heads ;his… … Fig. 85. Adriaen van Ostade : The Backgammon Players. 1653 the Grace at the Peasants Meal. Once the artistetched a portrait of himself sitting at his easel in hisstudio. Particularly fine in these etchings is the renderingof the diffused light of an interior, in pleasing harmony withthe peaceful…
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