270 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. Signed in full on a bench to the right; panel, 18 inches by 14 inches. In the Holscher-Stumpf collection, Berlin. 424. THE FIDDLER AT THE COTTAGE. He stands fiddling in the centre at the door of a cottage. He faces a little to the right. A peasant leans over the closed half-door; over his left shoulder another head is visible. To the right, in front of the fiddler, a little girl holding an infant on her left arm stands listening. Beside her is a dog which looks up at the player. Behind him to the left are four other children; two of them, near the front, are in shadow. [Compare 422.] Signed in full, and dated 1637; oval panel, uj inches by 9 inches. In the Fitzwilliam collection. In the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1902 catalogue, No. 70. 425. MUSICIANS OUTSIDE THE INN. In front of a cottage, with a gnarled oak to the left of it, a fiddler and a young hurdy- gurdy player stand in the centre. To the left of them peasants and women sit in a semicircle; one man standing up in the middle asks a woman to dance. At the cottage door stands a peasant with a jug in his right hand. On the left is a pig; in the centre is a dog; to the right are some hens. On the right the village street goes away past the cottage; some people are seen walking in the distance. To judge from the light and shade, the picture was painted about 1645. Signed in full on the right at foot, and dated 16; canvas, 23 inches by 20 inches. Etched by Chataigner as " Paysans et Chansonniers " in the Music Napoleon, vol. viii. In the Palace, Kassel, 1783 inventor)', No. 100. At the Louvre, Paris, 1806-15. In the Kassel Gallery, 1903 catalogue, No. 275 (old No. 251). 426. PEASANTS UNDER A VINE-TRELLIS AT AN INN, WITH A MUSICIAN. Sm. 192, and Suppl. 90. Under a vine-trellis, in front of an inn, three peasants and a woman are grouped round a cask serving as table in the centre foreground. On the cask are playing-cards. The foremost man sits in lost profile to the left on a low- backed chair. The second man, to the left, stands bending forward, and leaning his right hand on the cask. Behind him to the left is an over- turned bench. Between them sits the woman, facing the spectator; she holds up in her left hand a full glass, and has a jug in her right. Behind her to the right stands a fiddler. Farther back, in front of the door of the house on the right, are other peasants. In the right foreground is a pump, with a pail beside it. Signed in full, and dated 1659 on a ^ oor * n the r 'g^ lt centre; panel, 14 inches by 17^ inches. Etched by ReVeil as " Le Jeu interrompu " in the Musee de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris, 1828, vol. i. The note in that publication, stating that the picture was in the collection of the King of Prussia at Sanssouci, must be erroneous; but compare 443. Engraved in the Musee Napoleon.
