x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE i 47 Sales. Chevalier Erard, Paris, April 23, 1832, No. 104 (11,950 francs). W. Williams Hope, London, June 14, 1849 (472 : IDS., Woodin). In the collection of John Walter, Bearwood. In the collection of the late Alfred Beit, London. In the collection of Otto Beit, London. 3. A HERMIT IN HIS CELL. He sits on a stone seat beside an old wall under a thatched roof, near the roots of a tree. He faces three- quarters left, and reads a large book which he holds with both hands. His wrinkled face is framed in his long white hair and beard. He wears a long brown garment laced in front, shoes, and leggings. .Behind him to the right is a skull. A water-bottle stands in a niche beside him. A very notable and genuine picture of Ostade's first period. In the style of Rembrandt. ' Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 26^ inches by 23 inches. Exhibited at Diisseldorf, 1904, No. 357. Purchased at Amsterdam, 1888. In the Weber Gallery, 1907 catalogue, No. 257 (old No. 219). 30. A Hermit. Signed with the monogram. Sale. Anthoni Daems, Amsterdam, April 28, 1706, No. 56. 3^. A Monk at Prayer. By Ostade and Dusart. Sale. Cornells Dusart, Haarlem, August 21, 1708, No. 107. 3<r. St. Anthony in a Grotto. He reads a book. A woman offers him drink. Sale. B. Mallinus, Brussels, September 22, 1842, No. 25. 4. A Hermit. A hermit with long white hair and beard sits before his cell reading a folio. Beside him to the right are books and a skull. In the manner of Rembrandt. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 24 inches by i8| inches. Sale. C. Turner of London, Berlin, November 17, 1908, No. 63. 5. A Monk at Prayer. Half-length. He wears a cowl, and faces three-quarters right. In his clasped hands, which are bent down, he holds a cross, a skull, and a rosary. To the left is foliage j to the right is the sky. Described from a mezzotint by J. Holaert. 6. SMELL. A peasant smelling his tobacco-box. He leans his left hand, in which is a clay pipe, on the corner of a table to the right. With his right hand he holds a tobacco-box to his nose. He wears a brown coat and cap. He has a slight moustache, and brown hair. Greyish-brown background. Panel, 4 inches by 3! inches. In the Brunswick Picture Gallery, 1900 catalogue, No. 301. 7. TASTE. Peasants and women carousing in a tavern in all eleven figures. On the left a fat man, seen from the back in a three-
