x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 335 Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1908, No. 65. In the collection of Lord Huntingfield, Heveningham Hall. 640. FOUR PEASANTS DRINKING AND SMOKING AT AN INN. In the centre of a spacious barn-like roorri a peasant sits on a chair in profile to the left. His right hand, which rests on his knee, holds his pipe ; his left arm hangs down over the arm of his chair. He rests his right leg on an empty cask, standing to the left. Beside this to the left a peasant sits astride a low bench, facing the spectator ; he lights his pipe at a little charcoal pan. Behind him stands a third man in profile to the left ; he holds a glass of beer in his left hand. A fourth man sits near, looking up to the left at the man with the glass. In the dark back- ground to the right lies a fifth peasant. A good picture of the early period. Signed A. v. O. ; panel, 12 inches by 16 inches. In the Karlsruhe Gallery, 1894 catalogue, No. 245. 641. Four Figures in a Cottage. Apparently genuine, but some- what dry in handling. In the Potocky collection, Cracow. 642. PEASANTS CAROUSING AT AN INN. In a large barn-like room three peasants sit drinking. The nearest man looks to the left, where two children play with a dog. On the right is an overturned bench. Warm in tone and broad in style. A good picture of the end of the first period. Signed in full, and dated 1639 behind the bench ; panel, n inches by 15 inches. Bought in 1892 from the London dealer Martin Colnaghi. In the collection of the late Alfred Thieme, Leipzig, Bode's 1900 catalogue, No. 61. 643. Four Peasants at the Inn Fireside. Sm. 122, and Suppl. 62. Four peasants sit on the right in front of the fire in a rustic inn. The nearest man, seen from the back in a three-quarter view to the left, sits on a chair. The second man, to the left of him, leans on the arm of a chair, on which stands an earthenware jug ; he smokes a clay pipe. To the right of him sit the two others, facing the spectator. Behind them the hostess is busy at a cupboard in the back wall ; a child beside her to the left looks on. In the left background steps lead to another room. Here and there are household utensils. Panel, 13^ inches by n| inches. The composition is identical with that of 634 ; one or the other is probably a copy. Mentioned by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, i. 302 ; and by Waagen, ii. 46. Engraved by J. Taylor ; and by Fittler in the Stafford Gallery, No. 49. Sales. Jan Gildemeester Jansz, Amsterdam, June n, 1800, No. 162 (800 florins, Zuyderhof). Griffier Fagel, London, May 22, 1801, No. 53 (.157 : ios.). In the collection of the Marquess of Stafford, 1829 (Sm.).
