370 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. 1 1 inches by 9 inches. In the St. Victor collection. Sale. G. Faulkner, London, 1879 (j4 2O Annoot). 742/ Drinkers and Smokers. Sale. Ant. Sils, Antwerp, March 21, 1882, No. 28. 742. Peasants drinking. Panel, 8 inches by 6 inches. Sale. 'S Hertogenbosch, May 17, 1882, No. 15. 743. The Village Politicians at the Inn. Mentioned by Paul Eudel, U Hotel Drouot en 1884-5, p. 199. Sale. Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, January 29, 1885 (2280 francs). 744. Interior of an Inn. A drinker, holding a wine-glass, looks out of the window. To the right are other guests. A fine picture, but probably by Isack van Ostade. Signed on the casement ; 14 inches by uj inches. Exhibited in the Rupprecht Exhibition, Munich, 1889, No. 94. 745. A Tavern Scene. Dated on the left at foot 1657 ; 16 inches by 22 inches. Exhibited in the Rupprecht Exhibition, Munich, 1889, No. 191. 746. A Peasant Company. Seven persons converse by the fireside. The man seated nearest to the fire plays the fiddle. In front stands another man, facing the spectator, and leaning on the back of a chair. Farther back sit two peasants ; another stands up. At the back a man embraces a woman. 6 inches by 6 inches. Sale. W. Mitchell, Frankfort-on-the-Main, May 7, 1890, No. 70 (240 mark, Grunelius). 746(7. Interior. Two peasants sit beside a heavy block of wood, listening to a third man who stands before them. A fourth goes away through a doorway on the left. Panel, 14 inches by inches. Sale. Cremer and others, Cologne, January 20, 1892, No. 143. 747. Peasants at an Inn. Sm. 29, and Suppl. 133. Four peas- ants are in front of the hearth. One of them stands, hat in hand, with his back to the fire. Another, seated opposite to him, offers him a glass of beer. The other two sit between them, but farther back. On the ex- treme right a child, standing in front of a chair, takes something out of a basin to give it to a dog who watches it. In the background two men play backgammon by a window, and a third man looks on. At the back a staircase leads up to another room. [Pendant to 726.] Dated 1668 ; panel, 14 inches by 13 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tre'sor de la Curiosite", i. 379, ii. 9.
