x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 153 In the Ryerson collection, exhibited at the Chicago Fine Art Institute. 34. A PEASANT OPENING A WINDOW. He wears a purple jacket. Thickly painted. Signed in full, and dated 1643 or 1653, according to Parthey ; panel, 12 inches by n inches. In the Amalienstift, Dessau, 1877 catalogue, No. 207. 35. A PEASANT AT A WINDOW. See Sm. Suppl. 4. At a cottage window, the casement of which is thrown wide open and much foreshortened, a peasant, wearing a felt hat and a brown coat, leans with his left arm on the sill. A sunbeam plays on his face, ruddy with drink. Above the window grows a vine. Signed at foot; panel, io| inches by 8| inches. In the collection of D. van der Schrieck, Louvain, 1842 (Sm.). Sales. D. van der Schrieck of Louvain, Brussels, April 8, 1 86 1, No. 74 (2750 francs, Vigardot). John W. Wilson, Paris, March 14, 1881. M. RikorF, Paris, December 4, 1907, No. 15 (16,500 francs). In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the Bromberg collection, Hamburg. 36. A PEASANT AT A WINDOW. Half-length, without the hands. At the open casement-window of a cottage, a beardless man in a steel-blue coat and brick-red cap leans with his right arm on the sill and looks out. In the half-shadow behind his right shoulder the head of another person is visible. Below the window a jug with a handle hangs from a nail. To the left grows a vine in sunlight. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 1 1 inches by 8| inches. Purchased in 1896 from St. Bourgeois, Paris. In the Weber Gallery, Hamburg, 1907 catalogue, No. 259. 37. A PEASANT AT A WINDOW. In a window-embrasure a peasant in a black jacket with dull yellow sleeves and a dirty red cap leans on the sill. Above the window to the left is a vine. A good picture, with fine light and shade. Signed in full ; panel, 9 inches by 7 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1882, No. 1 16. In the collection of John Walter, Bearwood. In the collection of the late Alfred Beit, London. In the collection of Otto Beit, London. 38. A MAN DRINKING AT A WINDOW. He leans his right arm on the sill and holds a glass of wine. He wears a felt hat, and turns his head slightly left. Behind him to the right another figure is very dimly seen. Above the window to the left is a vine. Panel, n inches by 8| inches. In the Royal collection, Buckingham Palace, London, No. 826. 39. A MERRY TpPER AT A WINDOW. Sm. 246; Suppl. 131. A man, wearing a brownish jacket and high-crowned hat, in
