150 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. 1 6. TASTE. An old peasant in yellow with a black sleeveless doublet, and a black cloak over his left shoulder, sits at a table with a white cloth on which is a ham. He takes up a large glass of beer in his right hand. By the grey wall at the back is a cupboard in which are a loaf and a piece of meat. Panel, inches by 3^ inches. In the collection of Count BrUhl, with 14, 15, 17, and 18. All five pictures were in the Hermitage, 1842 (Sm.), but 17 and 18 are now in the Palace of Tsarskoe Selo. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 958. 17. HKARING. A peasant in a blue jacket and yellow breeches sits playing a hurdy-gurdy. On a table beside him are a jug, a glass, and a pipe. [See 16.] In the Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, near St. Petersburg. 1 8. SMELL. An artisan in a light grey hat and green jacket, with purple sleeves, sits smoking his pipe. [See 16.] In the Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, near St. Petersburg. 19. THE FIVE SENSES: TASTE. An excited man, with his pointed hat pressed down on his left ear, comes out of a house on the right. He has a clay pipe in his left hand, and holds a beer-jug to his lips with the right. On the left, farther away, a child eats a cake. Behind, at the end of the courtyard, a man sits on a garden seat. [See 22.] Signed in full on the right at foot. In the Rudolfinum, Prague, 1889 catalogue, No. 530. 20. FEELING. A man, turned slightly left and looking straight before him, feels with his left hand in his leather purse. In the back- ground is a village street with booths. [See 22.] Signed in full on the right. In the Rudolfinum, Prague, 1889 catalogue, No. 531. 21. SMELL. A man in an unsteady attitude, bending forward to the right, looks round at the spectator, and with his right hand pulls forward the top of his grey cloak which is falling down. In front of him crouches a dog. In the left middle distance is a house with a porch and a tree. On the right three persons stand near a wooden bridge. Beyond are cottages. [See 22.] Signed in full on the right. In the Rudolfinum, Prague, 1889 catalogue, No. 532. 22. HEARING. A man facing the spectator sings and beats time with a stick on a brass bowl in his left hand. In the left background an old woman with a dog sits in front of a house. In the centre is a large tree with a bench. To the right is a row of houses, past which a man is walking. [See 19-21.] Paper glued on panel, 6 inches by 4 inches each (of 19-22). The series is probably identical with the five pictures in the sale : Pieter Testas, Amsterdam, March 29, 1757 (Terw. 177), No. 14 (310 florins, Colijns).
