ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 303 530^. Peasants singing- and smoking. Panel, 16 inches by 12^ inches. Sale. Wilson and others, London, May 24, 1901, No. 68. 531. THE MUSIC-LESSON. An interior with four figures. In the left foreground a woman with a music-book rests her right arm on the table. To the right of her sits a man playing the fiddle. Behind stands a man wearing a red cap, and holding a jug and a beer-glass. To the left, behind the woman, sits an old man. A good picture of the late period. 9! inches by 7^ inches. Mentioned by Waagen, iii. 207. Exhibited at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 1903, No. 146. Sales. Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, July 26, 1859, No. 53 (42, V. Cuycke). A. Hope, London, June 30, 1894, No. 50 (246:103., M. Colnaghi). In the possession of the London dealer Martin Colnaghi, 1903. 531^. Four Peasants singing and playing in an Interior. Panel, 15 inches by ii inches. Sale. Trustees of the late Sir Robert Loder, Bart., London, May 29, 1908, No. 532 (115 : I os., Paterson). 532. A Concert. Sm. 248. Four men and a woman are grouped round a table. Four are seated. One man has risen from his seat on a bench, holding a glass, to compliment the musicians seated opposite him. The nearer of them, with his back to the spectator, plays the violin ; his companion to the left sings. At the back are a bed in a recess and steps leading to another room. [Possibly identical with 527.] Described by Sm. from an engraving by J. de Visscher. 533. A FIDDLER WITH TEN OTHER FIGURES. Dated 1650. Not mentioned in W. Burger's 1859 catalogue, or by Lafenestre. In the collection of the Due d'Arenberg, Brussels. 534. A FIDDLER AMONG PEASANTS. In the courtyard of a cottage, the dark interior of which is seen through a wooden door on the right, three peasants sit at a table. The man on the left, wearing a red jacket and a fur cap, holds his clay pipe in his left hand. The man seated on the right, wearing a blue jacket but no cap, holds his pipe in his right hand which rests on the table. A grey-bearded man in the centre has stuck his pipe in his cap, and holds a beer-glass in his left hand. Behind him a fourth man looks over his shoulder. In half-shadow to the right sits a woman nursing a child. The fiddler, in a jacket and blue apron, stands in the right foreground, facing left. Beside him, a boy feeds a dog. It is fine in colour, but seems to have been slightly repainted. Signed in full on the right at foot, and dated 1644; panel, 14 inches by i8| inches. Mentioned by Von Pflugk-Harttung in Repertorium fiir Kunstwissenscha.fi, 1885, viii. p. 89.
