200 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. 193^. The Smoker. Engraved by Madame Pelletier. 194. The Smoker with a Jug. Half-length. A stout man with a slight moustache sits on a chair facing slightly left. He wears a big dark cap. His left hand grasps the handle of a pewter jug on the table ; his right arm rests on the jug, and in the right hand is his clay pipe. A simple background. The original of this print seems to be iSia. Engraved by Johan Suyderhoef (Wussin, 1 16). 195. A Peasant seated, lighting his Pipe. Engraved by C. Weisbrod. 196. THE SMOKER. Half-length. He sits, almost facing the spectator, and blows out a cloud of smoke. His left hand, which is bent, holds his clay pipe ; his right hand rests on the arm of his chair. Behind him to the right, in shadow, is a man holding a hat and a glass. Painted about 1660. Signed ; panel, 7 inches by 6 inches. In the Karlsruhe Gallery, 1894 catalogue, No. 247. 197. THE SMOKER IN A COTTAGE INTERIOR. Sm. 99. A peasant with a grey hat sits in front of a stool on which is a beer- jug. His head is turned three-quarters left. He holds up a charcoal pan in his left hand to light his pipe at it. On the right, farther back, two peasants play cards at a window. A maid-servant looks at them on her way out. A dark and not particularly good picture. [Probably identical with 200.] Panel, 1 1 inches by 9 inches. Engraved by Dupreel and Massard the younger (Filhol, v. 351). Sale. Proley, Paris, 1787 (1206 francs). In the Louvre, Paris, 1902 catalogue, No. 2500 ; valued by the experts in 1816 (at 3500 francs). 198. A Peasant smoking in an Interior. At the back is a merry company. 1 8 inches by 15^ inches. Saks. Izaak Hoogenbergh, Amsterdam, April 10, 1743 (Hoet, ii. 83), No. 29 (160 florins, Van der Land). Lambert Witsen, Amsterdam, May 25, 1746 (Hoet, ii. 187), No. 10 (113 florins). 1980. A Man smoking with Three Others. Pendant to 248^. 7 inches by 6 inches. Sale. G. Vogel, Rotterdam, July 3, 1755, No. 41. 198^. A Peasant lighting his Pipe. At the back of the room three peasants sit playing cards. Of the master's best period. [Possibly identical with 199, 199*7, and 203. Pendant to 213^0.] 1 1 inches by 9 inches. Sale. Wannaar and others, Amsterdam, May 17, 1757, No. 45.
