218 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. 250. Two Peasants smoking in an Interior. One sits at a table lighting his pipe. The other sits smoking. [Pendant to 182^.] Panel, y| inches by 6 inches. Sale. J. Viet, Amsterdam, October 12, 1774, No. 158 (170 florins, with pendant, Wubbens). 251. Two Peasants. One sits at a table, looking hard into a jug as if he were about to drink. The other, behind him, also seems thirsty. On the table are a glass, a pipe, and a tobacco-box. Panel, 7 inches by 6| inches. Sale. G. J. de Servais, Malines, July 21, 1775, No. 89 (104 florins 10). 252. Two Peasants at an Inn. Sm. 73. They sit near the hearth. One offers the other a glass of beer. Through a window on the right is a view of open country. With accessories. Panel, 12 inches by 13^ inches. Sale. Nogaret, Paris, 1780 (900 francs). 253. Two Men smoking. Sm. 54. A peasant, wearing a violet waistcoat and a grey cloak, sits, holding a jug in his right hand and a pipe in his left. At his feet a dog gnaws a bone. Beyond him a sailor sits smoking at a table. In the background are houses. [Pendant to 215.] Panel, 5^ inches by 4 inches. Sales. Comte Dubarry, Paris, November 21, 1774 (500 francs, with pendant). Abbe Leblanc, Paris, February 14, 1781 (500 francs, with pendant). 254. Two Peasants in an Interior. In front, a man sits smoking his pipe on a low bench by the fire. Beside him sits another man, holding a fine jug in his right hand, which rests on his knee, and holding a glass of beer in his left ; he looks with a half-drunken air at his neighbour. By the wall at the back are domestic utensils. Panel, 14 inches by n inches. Sale. J. Tak, Soeterwoude, September 5, 1781, No. 40 (156 florins, Van Akeren). 255. Two Peasants at an Inn. A peasant, holding a pipe, sits on a chair by a table on which are a charcoal pan and a tobacco-box. On the other side of the table sits another peasant with a glass and a jug. Panel, 7^ inches by 6 inches. Sale. PJfLocquet, Amsterdam, September 22, 1783, No. 277 (212 florins, Yver). 2550. Two Peasants in an Interior. Half-length. Panel, 9^ inches by y| inches. Sale. P. Steijn and others, The Hague, October 7, 1783, No. 4 (67 florins). 256. Two Men smoking. Sm. 50. Three-quarter-length. They sit at a table in an interior ; one is smoking, the other filling his pipe. Panel, 7 inches by 6 inches. Engraved by J. G. Wille as " Les Bons Amis."
