372 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. who sits on the right, opposite to him and in profile to the left ; this man wears a tall hat, holds his pipe in his left hand, and gesticulates with his right hand. Between them, behind the table, stands a third man who wears a blue jacket, and holds a pipe in his right hand. On the left, just behind the first-named man, a staircase leads to the door of another room. In the right background a woman, seen almost from the back, converses with a peasant standing at the open door. By the window to the left are two children. Signed ; panel, 1 1 inches by 8 J inches. Sales. Swabey, London, 1860 (Smith) ; Smith sold it to Adrian Hope. A. Hope, London, June 30, 1894 (273, Sedelmeyer). 752. A Rustic Interior. 10 inches by loj inches. Exhibited at Mittau, 1894, No. 1 1 2. Then in the Ludinghausen-Wolff collection. 753. An Inn Scene. In a low-ceiled room two men sit conversing by a table. A third man, waving his hat, takes a glass of beer from the hostess, while the host chalks up his score. At the lofty arched doorway a peasant enters with a jug. Signed ; io inches by 9 inches. Sale. Wurster, Cologne, June 15, 1896, No. 205. 754. INTERIOR WITH EIGHT FIGURES. In the centre an old woman and a man sit reading. Behind them stands another man, while a third approaches. By the hearth to the left are other figures. Signed in full ; 14 inches by 18 inches. Sale. Jacques, Amsterdam, March 1897, No. 20 (730 florins). 755. INTERIOR WITH FIGURES. Three persons sit round a table. At the back a fourth man lights his pipe. 10 inches by 8 inches. Sale. (At Robinson and Fisher's) London, May 27, 1897, No. 198 (21). 755*. Interior with Figures. From the collection of Lord Guyer (?). Sale. (At Robinson and Fisher's) London, July i, 1897, No. 127. 756. Peasants at an Inn. Three peasants and a woman sit round an upturned cask. The woman repulses her neighbour's embraces. Near this group stands a peasant with a glass. To the left is an open window. Near it is the cellar door. Signed on the left at foot ; panel, 12 J inches by n inches. Sale. Ch. Sedelmeyer, Berlin, November 16, 1897, No. 37. 756^. Interior with Peasants. In a rustic kitchen with a window to the right is a company of peasants. In the centre stands a man with a tall hat, a red doublet, and a dagger hanging at his side, who clasps his hands behind him ; he converses with a man seated opposite who stirs the
