x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 321 In the possession of the London dealer Smith, 1842 (Sm.). In 1843 sold to the widow Coungham (?). 591. Boisterous Peasants at an Inn. A peasant, seated on a chair in front, turns to the right ; he has a pipe in his left hand and grasps with his right a jug held between his knees. In the centre another toper sits on the edge of a wooden bench, leaning back against a table : he holds a glass and laughs at the host, who stands with folded arms in front of him and looks with a vexed air at a drunkard on the left. On the table sits a man rilling his pipe ; behind him is another figure. On the left a drunken old man is supported by a woman who is seated. By the fireside at the back are two other drinkers ; one sits, bending down to the hearth. A jug stands on a foot -warmer ; there are other accessories. Wrongly attributed by Sm. to Isack van Ostade and described among his works (Sm. i) ; assigned to Isack also in the Comte de Vence sale catalogue. [Pendant to 618. Possibly identical with 5760 or 588.] Panel, 15^ inches by 2ii inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tre'sor de la Curiosite", i. 100. Engraved by J. Pelletier as " Les Plaisirs des Buveurs." Sale. Comte de Vence, Paris, February 11, 1761 (260 francs, with pendant). In the collection of M. E. A. J. van den Mersche, Ghent, 1791. In the collection of Countess Vilain XIII., Schloss Wetteren, 1827. Sale. Count Ph. Vilain XIII. and De R , Paris, May 2, 1857, No. 9. 591*7. An Old Man embracing a Woman. Several figures. Signed with the monogram, and dated 1670 ; panel, about 7! inches by 10 inches. In the Von Tettau collection, Erfurt, 1863 (Parthey, ii. 208). 591^. Peasants at an Inn. Four grotesque persons sit at a table. One plays the bagpipes. Signed ; panel, 8 inches by 6| inches. Sale. Richardt, Rotterdam, October 26, 1882, No. 43. 59i<r. A Tavern Scene. A company of peasants laughing at one of their number whom his wife leads away. Panel, I2| inches by io| inches. Exhibited in the Rupprecht Exhibition, Munich, 1889, No. 197. 591^. A Tavern Scene. In the foreground a man and a woman clink glasses. Panel, 9^ inches by 12 inches. Exhibited in the Rupprecht Exhibition, Munich, 1889, No. 255. 592. Boisterous Peasants in a Barn. In the centre a man lies on his stomach, close to the stool on which he had been sitting. To the right of him, two men and a woman are grouped round a half-cask serving as a table ; they laugh at the fallen man. The nearer man, seated on a stool facing left, holds a pot on the cask, from which he and a woman seated to the left of him are eating. Directly behind the prostrate man, VOL. Ill Y
