j 5 2 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. Sales. Chevalier de la Roque, Paris, 1745 (130 francs). A. van der WerfF van Zuidland, Dordrecht, July 31, l8ll, No. 78 (155 florins, P. de Heere). P. de Heere de Holy of Dordrecht, Rotterdam, August 31, 1824, No. 7 (706 florins, Rombouts). In the collection of J. Rombouts, Dordrecht, 1850. Sm. says that it was in the collection of Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam, 1829; but as it was not in the sale of July I, 1833, there was probably some mistake. In the collection of L. Dupper, Dordrecht, bequeathed to the Rijksmuseum, 1870. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, L. Dupper bequest, 1907 catalogue, No. 1815. 30. A BAKER ANNOUNCING THAT HIS NEW BREAD IS READY. Sm. Suppl. 3. Half-length. He wears a white shirt, and leans with his left elbow on the sill of an open window overgrown with vine on the right. He blows a horn, held in his right hand. Beside him to the left stands a little boy wearing a grey hat, who holds a copper coin in his right hand and looks up at the baker, who is turned slightly left. On a table to the right in front of the window is a basket of loaves of rye bread. Painted about 1 650. Signed in full on the window-sill; panel, u inches by 10 inches ; enlarged on either side and at foot. According to the Hermitage catalogue, it came from the La Roque collec- tion, and would thus be identical with Sm. 8, but this is doubtful. [See 29.] In the Crozat collection. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 950. It was there in 1842 (Sm., who valued it at j8o). 31. A PEASANT AT A WINDOW. A peasant in a red doublet leans out of a window overgrown with vine. He leans on his elbows, and holds a clay pipe in his right hand. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, io inches by 8 inches. Exhibited at Berlin, 1890, No. 206. In the collection of James Simon, Berlin. 32. A MAN SMOKING AT A WINDOW. Sm. 141 ; Suppl. 50. He is turned slightly left, and leans over the closed half-door, with a pipe in his right hand. He wears a grey hat and a purple coat with green sleeves. A vine grows over the semicircular coping of the doorway. Signed, A. Ostade ; panel, io| inches by 8| inches. Sales. D. de Jongh, Rotterdam, March 26, 1810, No. 14. Comte Pourtales, London, 1826 (17 : 175.). In the collection of the Due d'Arenberg, Brussels; W. Btirger's 1859 catalogue, No. 46 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm.). 33. A MAN DRINKING AT A WINDOW. At a window a man with a tall hat faces right, but turns his head a little towards the spectator. His right arm is bent ; the right hand holds a pewter pot with the lid open. In the upper left-hand corner above the window is a vine. Panel.
