310 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. Panel, 14^ inches by 26| inches. Sale. De Brouwer the younger, Brussels, July 31, 1788, No. I (1825 florins, Castels). 546^. Peasants dancing. Panel, 8 inches by 8 inches. Sale. J. B. Horion, Brussels, September i, 1788, No. 117 (200 florins). 547. The Village Wedding. Sm. Suppl. 24. In a cottage interior the young bride dances with a middle-aged man to the music of a riddle. The fiddler stands on a stool and sings as he plays. On the right is a group of three guests ; one, wearing a violet cap, is in profile, holding a jug. At the back guests are seated round a table. On the right, another party are eating and drinking in an adjacent room. Panel, 16 inches by 23^ inches. Sale. Bertelet, Paris, 1789 (6560 francs, Paillet). 547*. Peasants dancing.- A company of men and women ; some are dancing. A pretty girl holds a beer-jug. Panel, n inches by 19 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, October n, 1810, No. 64 (5 florins 5, Posthumus). 547*. Peasants dancing. In the interior of an inn. Panel, 16^ inches by 14! inches. In the collection of Baron de Bedernau. In the collection of Baron de Castell, Hamburg, July 21, 1824, No. 209. 548. Peasants dancing and drinking at an Inn. Sm. 109. [Compare 542.] Mentioned by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, i. 249, 294. Sales. Ch. Alexandre de Calonne, London, March 23, 1795, No. 77 (367 : i os.). Bryan, London, May 17, 1798, No. 56 (409 : ios., G. Hibbert). In the collection of G. Hibbert, London, 1829 (Sm.). 5480. Peasants dancing in an Interior. Some loving couples sit together. Others watch them with amusement. A drunken man led by a girl comes down a staircase on the left. Sale. Jonkheer V. L. Vegelin van Claerbergen, Leeuwaarden, April 6, 1846, No. 70. 549. Peasants dancing at an Inn. Sm. 57. About twenty-six persons are assembled in a large inn room, with an arched doorway in the left background leading to the open air. Two couples are dancing to the music of a fiddle played by a man who stands near the door. In the left foreground a peasant with his back to the spectator reclines on a bench and looks on. In the right foreground a woman is making cakes at the fireside ; a little boy watches her. Near them stands a peasant, with his arm round a girl's waist ; they are seen almost from the back. They con- verse with a man holding a jug who sits in a chair. Behind him sits a man embracing a woman ; she holds a beer-glass in her right hand, and
