228 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. on the white table-cloth which is pushed back to the right. In the right background is a window. Signed in full on the edge of the table, and dated 1672 (Sm. says 1642) ; panel, 8 inches by 7 inches. Sale. J. Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam, July i, 1833, No. 58 (515 florins, J. de Vries). In the Van der Hoop collection, Amsterdam, 1842 (Sm.). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest; 1907 catalogue, No. 1819. 288. THE LOVING COUPLE. A young peasant, in a dark coat and red cap, embraces the shoulders and waist of a girl who faces the spectator. She wears a brownish-red dress, a black bodice, and a white cap. She turns half away from him, but lets her left hand rest on his arm. Dark background. A fine and genuine picture. Signed in full on the right at foot ; circular panel, 7^ inches across. Mentioned by Parthey (ii. 209) as in the Breslau Town Hall, 1863. From the Bach collection. In the Breslau Museum, No. 277. 289. A MAN AND A WOMAN SEATED AT A TABLE. Sm. 38. Three-quarter-length. The woman holds a wine-glass in her right hand and a jug in her left ; the man has a pipe. An old man listens behind a boarded partition at the back. [Pendant to 326. Probably identical with 295^.] Signed, and dated 1661 j panel, io inches by 9 inches. Mentioned by Descamps ; and by Waagen, ii. 107. Sales. Gerard Braamcamp, Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, No. 158 (i 100 florins, with pendant, P. Fouquet). Solirene, Paris, March ii, 1812 (3320 francs, with pendant). In the collection of Alexander Baring, 1829 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Ashburton, The Grange ; sold as a whole in August 1907 to the London dealers T. Agnew and Sons and others. In the possession of the London dealers T. Agnew and Sons. 290. A MAN AND A WOMAN IN CONVERSATION. Sm. 124. Full-length. To the left is an open window with an arched top, through which is seen a landscape with a tree and bushes. Beside it sits a middle-aged man holding a clay pipe in his left hand. He looks at a woman who sits before him to the right in profile to the left ; she holds a glass full of beer in her right hand, and has a pewter pot in her left hand which hangs down. In the right background a bench and a staircase are faintly visible. A carefully painted picture of the later period. [Compare 294.] Panel, 13 inches by io inches. A copy was in the possession of the dealer Henry Weustenberg, 1907 catalogue, No. 92 ; it was sold at Berlin, October 27, 1908, No. 51. Offered for sale by Noel Desenfans, London, 1802, No. 75 (priced at 110:55.). In the Dulwich College Gallery, London, 1892 catalogue, No. 45 (old No. 107).
