444 ISACK VAN OSTADE SECT. 15. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. In the centre of the middle distance are three horsemen. One is on a grey horse. Another, who drinks from a beer-glass, is on a dark horse. The third has dismounted from a grey horse to water it. To the right is an inn. At the foot of the steps three peasants are grouped round a cask, with a little girl. To the right, in front of the horsemen, a man takes fodder from a sack ; two children watch him. In the right foreground is a woman at a well. In the left background is a two-wheeled cart, with three figures. There is a view of a flat landscape. In the collection of George J. Gould, Lakewood, New Jersey. 1 6. TWO HORSEMEN HALTING AT AN INN. The inn is to the right. On the left is seen the sky. Mentioned by Waagen, ii. 284. In the collection of the Duke of Bedford, London. 17. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. Sm. 39, and Suppl. 26. The inn is in the left middle distance. Steps lead up to the door, at which stands a woman. She looks down to the left at a seated traveller who has taken a glass from a maid. To the right, behind the woman who has two children at her side, a man looks out. Another man, seen from the back, stands to the left of this group. On the right, near the steps, stands a saddled grey horse ; a youth gives it fodder in a basket. Behind it is a lady ; to the right are a horseman and a boy with three dogs ; behind them to the right is another saddled horse. On the right is seen the village street with a church-tower, and a windmill to the left and right of the background. Of very fine quality. [Pendant to 18.] Panel, 23 inches by 33 inches. Engraved by Wright in the " Stafford Gallery." Mentioned by Waagen, ii. 46. In the collection of Lord Francis Egerton, London, 1842 (Sm.). In the collection of the Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, London, 1892 catalogue, No. 182. 18. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. Sm. 40. The inn, with an arbour, is in the right foreground, with three trees to the left of it. In front of the trees a fiddler plays, and several peasants listen. Behind them are two horsemen, one of whom is drinking. Behind them again is a barn. Near the trees on the left is a four-wheeled waggon with three persons in it. One of them, a lady, takes a wine-glass from a man standing near the waggon. Beyond them is a church-tower. In front of it, to the left, is a two-wheeled cart with a grey horse feeding at a trough into which a man shakes hay from a sack. Beyond it to the left a man and a boy go towards the village in the distance. In the left foreground is a beggar family, with a mother suckling her infant and three children. Very good in quality. [Pendant to 17.] Panel, 21 inches by 29^ inches. Engraved by W. Finden in the " Stafford Gallery." Mentioned by Waagen, ii. 46. In the collection of Lord Francis Egerton, London, 1842 (Sm.).
