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Le Bourg-Mestre (The Burgomaster)
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
print
Beauvarlet, Jacques-Firmin; Ostade, Adriaen van
Europe: France, Paris
c.1762
paper

Monochrome French print (etching and engraving) of a Dutch/Flemish burgomaster (mayor) , seated at a desk, his left arm leaning on a book and raised to his face, after the original 17th century work by A. von Ostade. Features a pair of nose spectacles. In a modern black ribbed frame with corner ornamentation.

1999.685

BOA Purchase, 1929