About the Artwork
Knife Fight
1653
Adriaen van Ostade
1610-1685
Dutch
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 4 7/8 × 5 3/4 inches (12.4 × 14.6 cm) Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 inches (13 × 15.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
45.346.2
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
In plate below image, lower left edge: A. ostade 1653
Many notations in pencil, verso
Stamp in brown, verso: A. Freiherr von Lanna (Lugt 2733); stamp in purple, verso: Andre-Jean Hachette (Lugt 132); unidentified stamp in black, verso (initials and last name in cursive script, same stamp on 40.3)
Provenance
A. Freiherr von Lanna
Andre Jean Hachette Hal H. Smith
1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Adriaen van Ostade, Knife Fight, 1653, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, 45.346.2.
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