212 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. 230^. A Merry Peasant Woman. [Pendant to 2i3/;.j 6 inches by 4 inches. Sale. A. and S. de Groot, The Hague, March 20, 1771, No. 74 (21 florins, with pendant, S. de Groot). 2307. A Woman. Half-length. Panel. Sale. A. de Lange, Amsterdam, December 12, 1803, No. 71* (6 florins). 230. A Peasant Woman. Sale. Amsterdam, April 22, 1809, No. 207 (i florin 15, with 214^). 230^. A Merry Peasant Woman. Panel, 6 inches by 5 inches. Sale. J. van der Vinne and Van Oukerke, Haarlem, March 11, 1816, No. 23. 230(7. An Old Woman laughing;. She is in full face. She wears a white cap, a white ruff, and a brown dress. Oval panel, 6 inches by inches. Sales. M. van Coehoorn, Amsterdam, October 19, 1801, No. 53 (16 florins 10). De Burtin, Brussels, July 21, 1819, No. 119. 231. A Woman. Sm. Suppl. 77. She wears a dark-grey gown with red sleeves, a white apron, and a cap. She sits at a window, holding a pipe in one hand and a paper in the other. A cat sits beside her. The arched window is overgrown with vine on the outside. " A freely painted work " (Sm.). Panel, u inches by 10 inches. In the Fossard collection, Paris, before 1842. 231*7. A Peasant Woman. Dated 1668 ; panel, about 1 6 inches by n inches. In the Royal collection, Buckingham Palace, London, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 13) ; but not to be found there by W. Burger in 1858. 232. THE TWO NEWSPAPER READERS (or, Reading the News). Half-length. On the left a man sits in profile to the right at a table ; he is reading from a paper which he holds in both hands. He wears a chestnut-brown dress and a black hat. Another man, standing behind to the right, with a glass in his left hand, listens attentively. On the table are an earthenware jug, a pipe, and tobacco. Late and hard in style ; the date thus seems doubtful. [Possibly identical with 234.] Signed in full, and dated 1653 ; panel, 9 inches by 7^ inches. In the La Caze collection, Paris. In the Louvre, Paris, La Caze bequest ; 1903 catalogue, No. 2505. 2320. Two Newspaper Readers. Two peasants. One, seated, reads a newspaper ; the other leans on a chair and listens. Canvas, 10 inches by 8| inches. Sale. Capello, Amsterdam, May 8, 1767 (Terw. 591), No. 57 (31 florins).
