272 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. spectator; the boy is in red, with a grey cloak over his left shoulder. On the right is a vine-clad cottage. A countrywoman in brown with a white cap leans out over the closed half-door; to the left of her is seen a laughing peasant with a pipe in his hand. A third figure to the right of her is lost in shadow. In front of the door to the left a stout and jovial peasant sits on a bench facing the spectator; with his right hand he holds a large covered jug on the corner of the bench between his knees. To the left of him are two children. In the right foreground a little girl holds a child on a stool. A boy sits on the ground playing with a dog. On the left door- post is fastened a placard, on which is drawn a cow with the inscription, " Koebeesten te koop tot . . ." (" Cows to sell.") " A perfect example of the master" (Sm.). [Compare 427.] Signed in full, and dated 1673, on a plank to the r 'g nt > panel, 18 inches by i6| inches. Engraved by Chataigner and Duparc, by Chataigner and Bovinet, by Bout- rois, by A. Subercase (1869), by Zeelander, and others. Lithographed by C. C. A. Last and-J. I. Mesker. A water-colour by Ostade, also dated 1673, and agreeing in detail with the picture save that a hen is added, is in the collection of George Salting, London; it is the original of the coloured engraving by Ploos van Amstel. In the Van Slingeland collection, according to The Hague catalogue. In the Louvre, Paris, 1806-15. In the collection of William V., Stadtholder of the Netherlands. In the Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, 1907 catalogue, No. 129; it was there in 1829 (Sm., who valued it together with 636 at 1260 as a pair). 430. THE BAGPIPER AT A COTTAGE. At the door of a vine-clad cottage, with the gable turned to the front, a man stands listening to a bagpiper, who stands to the right surrounded by children. In the left- hand corner sit a peasant and a woman; in the right middle distance three peasants are carousing at a table in an arbour. Leafy trees rise behind the house. In all there are sixteen figures. The red jacket of a girl and the blue coat of a boy are the only distinctive notes of colour to relieve the prevailing brown and yellow. Signed in full on the left, and dated 1640; panel, 18 inches by 14^ inches. According to two inscriptions on the back, it was in the Sales. Petronella de la Court, Amsterdam, October 19, 1707 (Hoet, i. 106), No. 25 (505 florins). Cornelis Hasselaar, Amsterdam, August 26, 1742 (Hoet, ii. 50) but the Hasselaar sale included no such picture. In the Copenhagen Museum, 1904 catalogue, No. 256^. 431. AN ORGAN-GRINDER AT A COTTAGE. In front of the closed half-door of an inn, from which the landlord and his wife are looking out, stands an organ-grinder surrounded by children. A traveller sits on a bench in front. Dated at the bottom edge 1638; panel, 12 inches by 10 inches. In the collection of J. O. Gottschald, Leipzig, 1901 catalogue, No. 20; bequeathed to the Museum in 1903. In the Leipzig Museum, Gottschald bequest, 1903 catalogue, No. 799.
