x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE left foreground, in shadow, a fourth person sits in profile to the right. The light comes from the left through a square open window. On the right are two tubs and a jug. Signed in full, and dated 1653 ; panel, small. In the collection of Count Czernin von Chudenitz, Vienna, No. 100. 585. BOISTEROUS PEASANTS AT AN INN. In the left centre, where a wall, with a chimney-piece, goes away to the back, an old peasant couple dance to the music of a bagpiper who stands to the right in a raised position. At the piper's feet sits a peasant, with his back to the spectator, looking on. He holds an earthenware jug in his right hand and raises his cap in his left. The dancers are in full light. On the right, and nearer the front, slightly in shadow, a peasant sits at a table, holding his glass in his left hand and caressing with his right the left hand of a woman, who sits to the left of him and laughingly responds to his endearments. Farther away, in front of the table, another peasant sits on a bench on which he rests his left leg ; he fills his pipe, and looks with a smile at the spectator. In the left foreground, in deep shadow, two children play. A good and interesting work of the early period. Panel, 20 inches by 31^ inches. In the collection of Prince Liechtenstein, Vienna, 1885 catalogue, No. 596. 586. AN EARLY WORK WITH SMALL FIGURES. In the collection of Dr. M. Strauss, Vienna. 5860. A Company of Boisterous Peasants. Sale. Adriaan van Hoek, Amsterdam, April 7, 1706 (Hoet, i. 88), No. 12 (460 florins). 586^ and c. Two Companies of Peasants. Pendants. Early works . Sale. Jan Wai ran Sandra Middelburg, August 3, 1713 (Hoet, ii. 366), Nos. 3 and 4 (6 florins and 2 florins 4). 586^. Drunken Peasants. 9 inches by 8 inches. Sale. Cornelis van Lill, Dordrecht, June 18, 1734 (Hoet, ii. 93), No. 28 (100 florins). 586^. A Peasant Scene. A woman strikes a man on the head with a slipper. Sale. Jan de Gise, Bonn, August 30, 1742, No. 123. 586^. A Rustic Interior with Merry Peasants. They drink, smoke, and dance. Dated 1644 ; circular panel, 10 inches across. Sale. N. Tjark and others, Amsterdam, November 10, 1762, No. 14 (73 florins, Slagregen). 586/ Peasants singing and drinking. In an interior. A woman nursing a child.
