x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 289 The details and size agree with those of 473 at Stockholm, but the pictures cannot be identical. Offered at auction by Foster, London, 1835. 47 Sa. A Rustic Interior. A woman stands at a wash-tub. Three peasants sit by the fire. In front are domestic utensils. Panel, 23 inches by 28J inches. In the collection of B. Scheurleer. Sale. Amsterdam, April 27, 1840, No. 48 (25 florins, Roos). 479. A Rustic Interior. A village butcher is buying animals from a woman scouring a pot. He shows her a coin to induce her to complete the bargain. In other parts of the room two other women are at work. Here and there are domestic utensils. Of the master's first period. Panel, 14 inches by 16 inches. Sale. MefFre the elder, Paris, February 25, 1845, No. 69. 480. A Peasant Family at Home. Sm. 178, and Suppl. 82. In a cottage interior, near a projecting chimney on the left, a woman sits on a low chair with a little child on her lap. Behind her stands the father, cutting bread for two boys ; one of them, in a yellow jacket, stands beside a round table with his back to the spectator, while the other, behind the table, plays with a dog. Picturesque accessories. Dated 1647 ; panel, 17 inches by 14 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 494. Etched by A. van Ostade, B. 46. Probably the picture engraved by C. Josi in 1673. Sales. H. Rottermondt, Amsterdam, July 18, 1786, No. 238 (81 florins, Winter). Cliquet-Andrioli, Amsterdam, July 18, 1803, No. 38 (565 florins, Roos). George Morant, London, 1832 (236 : 55.) ; it was in his collection in 1829 (Sm.). Comte de M[orny], Paris, May 24, 1852, No. 15 (7700 francs). 480^7. Peasants at Home. Two peasants and a child sit at a table. At the back a woman is by the fireside. Sale. G. H. Morland, London, May 9, 1863 (141 : 153., Pearce). 480^. Interior of a Cottage. In the Van Winterfeld collection, Berlin, 1863 (Parthey, ii. 207). 480^. Peasants saying Grace. [Compare 497^.] Panel, about 7 inches by 9 inches. In the Hollandt collection, Brunswick, 1863 (Parthey, ii. 208). 481. A Peasant Family at Table. The father sits in the middle, carving a ham. A man standing up talks and waves his knife. A woman, seen from the back, feeds a little child. On the left another child drinks from a bowl which stands on a stool. Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, 9^ inches by 20 inches. Sale. Breb , Paris, March 26, 1866, No. 35. VOL. Ill U
