Slaughter of a Pig, ca. 1642

  • Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch, 1610-1685

Etching and engraving printed in red ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 4 5/8 × 4 5/8 inches (11.7 × 11.7 cm) Sheet: 4 7/8 × 4 7/8 inches (12.4 × 12.4 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S836

Signed, in plate, lower left of image: Av. ostade

Stamp, verso: Scripps 1887 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)

Inscribed, in pencil, lower right corner: 47.

M. Montmorillon (Munich, Germany)

September 1887, C. J. Meyer (Carlsbad). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Adriaen van Ostade, Slaughter of a Pig, ca. 1642, etching and engraving printed in red ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S836.