xi ISACK VAN OSTADE 447 . In the collection of Lord Overstone, London. In the collection of Lady Wantage, London, 1905 catalogue, No. 170. 24*. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN (or, Cottage Scene). The inn, shaded by trees, is on the right. A man stands at the open door looking down the right, where a woman sits by the wall, occupied with a little girl who stands before her. To the right, in front, sits a man seen from the back in a three-quarter view to the left. On the left of the house, steps lead to a balcony, from which a man looks down ; another man, also looking down, is half-way up the steps. In the centre is a sledge laden with casks and drawn by a grey horse feeding at a trough which a man fills with fodder. Three men are busy unload- ing the sledge ; three children watch them. In the left middle distance is a well ; to the right of it sits a woman facing the spectator. To the right, again, is the gateway, of two high posts with a cross-beam, at which a man enters. At the back is a cottage among trees. The figures are dressed in pale -blues and yellows with touches of red. Warm golden afternoon light. Signed in full on the right, and dated 16 (the last two figures illegible) ; canvas, 2i inches by 31 inches. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 71. In the collection of William T. Blodgett, New York. 25. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. The inn is on the right. Steps lead up to a balcony. Here a woman stands looking down on a company of peasants who sit djinking. A flute-player, seen from the back and turned half-left, leans against the steps ; a dog to the left barks at him. To the left of the house is a large tree. To the left of the drinkers is a high two -wheeled tilt -cart with a grey horse, which is feeding at a trough. On the left, near the cart, are two men ; a rider approaches from the left, where is a view of the distance, with a windmill and a house with a tower. A good and well-preserved picture, in a warm brown tone. [Possibly identical with 44.] Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 20 inches by 24^ inches. Etched by H. Adam in Muxel's " Leuchtenberg Gallery," No. 154. In the Leuchtenberg Gallery, Munich, 1837 catalogue, No. 152. In the Leuchtenberg Gallery, St. Petersburg, 1885 catalogue, No. 157. In the collection of Henry C. Frick, New York, 1908 catalogue, No. 27. 26. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. The inn with a tower is in the right middle distance ; to the left are trees. In front, to the right, is a group of peasants round a woman who holds a child on her left arm. Behind, to the left, is a waggon with a grey horse which stretches out its head towards a sack of fodder which lies on the ground and is being opened by a man. In the waggon is a woman looking at a horseman who halts before her, with his horse in profile to the left. On the left is a trough. Behind it a man bends down ; a dog crouches before him. In the extreme left distance are a waggon, peasants, a house, and trees.
