ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 3 2 3 598. A RUSTIC INTERIOR. A party in full light. Very early but unattractive. Sale. Verschuer and others, Amsterdam, November 26, 1901, No. 423* (230 florins). 599. PEASANTS DRINKING AT AN INN. On the right a man comes downstairs. An early work ; the light and shade are strongly emphasised in a brown tone. Panel, 18 inches by 22 inches. Sale. Duke of Cleveland, London, March 8, 1902, No. 30 (220 : ios.). 600. INTERIOR WITH PEASANTS. In the brownish tone of the early works, with only restrained local colours in the costumes. Panel, 10 inches by 13 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, December 9, 1902, No. 48 (800 florins, Valk). 6ooa. Merry Peasants at an Inn. Panel, 9 inches by n inches. Sale. Cunliffe, London, May 9, 1903, No. 130. 60 1. A Country Inn. In the left centre of a spacious room, lighted from an open window on the left, an old peasant holding up a large goblet in his left hand dances by himself. To the left in front of him, another man sits on a chair, watching him. To the right of the dancer sits an old woman on a chair, in profile to the left ; an old man seated on the left, a Iktle behind her but facing the spectator, strokes her chin. In front of her is a little child. To the right-, in shadow behind this group, are a peasant with a jug and two children at a pump. Directly behind the old man and woman are seen the head and back of a man standing up. Numerous accessories. Signed in full on a tub to the right, and dated 1661 ; panel, 24 inches by 29 inches. Sales. Prince Demidoff, San Donato, near Florence, 1880. J. L. Menke, Brussels, June I, 1904, No. 55. 602. Boisterous Peasants. In a barn-like interior a peasant and a woman seen from the back dance wildly. To the right of them, a fiddler stands playing on a cask. A loving couple, also seen from the back, sit in front of him. In the left middle distance a woman gives her little child drink from an earthenware jug. Other peasants sit at the back, carousing. In the extreme left background is a peasant ; to the right of him is a staircase leading to an upper floor. On the floor in the centre foreground is a round jug, with a pipe lying to the left of it. Signed to the right on a cask, "A V O"; panel, 15 inches by 1 8 inches. Sale. J. L. Menke, Brussels, June i, 1904, No. 56. 603. Boisterous Peasants at an Inn. In the centre an excited peasant holds up his glass and weeps. A woman in a white apron takes him by the chin and tries to soothe him. In the immediate right foreground
