x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 243 336*7. Three Merry Peasants. Panel, 10 inches by 8| inches. Sale. B. Papenhuijzen, Dordrecht, August 23, 1841, No. 36. 337. Three Peasants at an Inn. Sm. Suppl. 113. Three peasants are grouped round a table. One man, wearing a blue jacket and a red cap, has risen from his chair, and leans his left arm on the back of it ; he holds a jug in his right hand, and looks at the man opposite, who sits leaning on the table and filling his pipe. The third man, seated behind the table, lights his pipe. At the back are a screen and a cupboard. Panel, io| inches by 8| inches. In the collection of Lord Colborne, 1842 (Sm.). 338. Three Peasants at an Inn (or, The Three Neighbours). Sm. Suppl. 1 08. Three-quarter-length. They are grouped round a table. One, apparently the village lawyer, wears a black cap and a puce-coloured jacket with black sleeves ; he sits in front, reading a paper. The man opposite, wearing a grey cloak and drab hat, leans on the table, listening. At the back a woman goes from the room. Panel, 10 inches by 12 inches. In the Martini collection, Paris, 1842 (Sm.). 339. Three Peasants at an Inn. Sm. 207, and Suppl. 107. Three-quarter-length. Two of them sit at a small three-legged table. One, in a pink jacket, holds a glass and a jug. The other, wearing a blue jacket and a drab hat, lights his pipe. The third man, wearing a blue jacket with brown sleeves and a black hat, stands, filling his pipe, near a buffet, on which is a dish of ham. [Possibly identical with 330^.] Panel, 18 inches by 13^ inches. Sale. Pictures from the Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam, August 4, 1828, No. 97 (1505 florins, Engelberts). In the collection of Baron J. G. Verstolk van Soelen, The Hague, 1842 (Sm.) ; bought as a whole in 1846 by T. Baring, H. B. Mildmay, and Lord Overstone. In the collection of Thomas Baring, 1847, who gave it to the dealer Buchanan in exchange for another picture. 340. Three Peasants at an Inn. Sm. Suppl. 104. In a lofty room, with a large window of two casements at the back, three men are grouped round a three-legged table. One, wearing a drab hat and a blue jacket, sits on a stool, smoking his pipe and listening to his opposite com- panion who holds a jug while he tells a story. The third man sits with his back to the window, lighting his pipe at a charcoal pan. On a stool in front is a basket of dried fish. " A luminous and well-finished pic- ture" (Sm.). Panel, 14! inches by 13 inches. In the collection of J. Newington Hughes, 1842 (Sm.). Sale. John Newington Hughes, London, April 14, 1848 (388:105., Johnson).
