304 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. Sales. D. W. Acraman. G. T. Braine, London, 1857 Gno, Woods). Thomas Howard, London, 1873 (.141 : 5 s -> Sedelmeyer). Purchased by Weber in 1883 from a Paris dealer. In the Weber collection, Hamburg, 1907 catalogue, No. 258 (old No. 220). 535. INTERIOR WITH MEN AND WOMEN AND A HURDY-GURDY PLAYER. Signed, and dated 1653 > T 5 mcnes by 2ii inches. Sale. Earl of Dudley, London, June 25, 1892, No. 17. In the collection of George Salting, London. 536. THE WANDERING MUSICIAN AT THE INN (or, Boors regaling). Sm. 101, and Suppl. 57. In the centre two peasants sit at a table. The nearer man, wearing a green jacket and a red cap, sits with his back to the spectator, with his left arm over the back of his chair. The other man, to the right at the farther side of the table, faces the spectator ; he wears a blue jacket and a green cap ; with his right hand he grasps a tall glass on the table. To the left of the nearer man, a third man, reclining on a bench, lights his pipe at a charcoal pan. On the floor in front of him is a dog. Behind him an old man stands, cap in hand, saluting a woman. To the right of the table stand an old man, playing a hurdy-gurdy, and a young fiddler. In the right middle distance a pig is eating. To the left are a peasant and a woman. Nearer the front is a dog. Signed, and dated 1643 ; panel, 17^ inches by 23^ inches. Exhibited at Vienna, 1873, No. 150, by Sedelmeyer. Sales. P. Locquet, Amsterdam, September 22, 1873, No. 275 (310 florins, Fouquet). Calonne, Paris, April 21, 1788 (965 francs). Montaleau, Paris, 1802 (1500 francs). London, 1807 (110 : 53.). London, 1836 (110 : $s., Coleman). In the collection of D. van der Schrieck, Louvain, 1842 (Sm.). Sales. D. van der Schrieck of Louvain, Brussels, April 8, 1861, No. 72 (13,000 francs, Viardot). Louis Viardot, Paris, April I, 1863. Ch. Sedelmeyer, Vienna, December 20, 1872, No. 129. In the collection of Max Kann, Paris. In the possession of the Paris dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 103. In the collection of the late C. T. Yerkes, New York, 1904 catalogue, No. 70. 537. The Wandering Musician at the Inn. Sm. 135, and Suppl. 105. The most prominent group includes two men and a woman before the hearth on the left. The woman leans against a table behind her, and takes a glass of beer from a jovial old man, hat in hand. Beside him stands another peasant holding a pipe and a pewter pot. Behind this group, three other peasants sit at the table in half-shadow. One of them, leaning his elbow on his knee, smokes quietly. Another man, seated on
