378 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. Successively in the collections of Thomas Hesketh, D. W. Acraman, and M. Zachary. Sale. George Morant, London, 1832 (66 : 35.). This, or a similar picture, was in the collection of Baron Nagell van Ampsen, The Hague, 1842 (Sm.). Sales. (Probably) A. W. C. Baron Nagell van Ampsen, The Hague, September 5, 1851, No. 44 (3650 florins, I. Roos). G. T. Braine, London, 1857 (213, Gritten). H. de Kat, Paris, May 2, 1866, No. 60 (2850 francs). In the possession of the London dealers Thomas Lawrie and Co. 769. Peasants smoking and drinking. Panel, 15 inches by 13 inches. Sale. Sir Charles A. Turner, London, March 16, 1908, No. 123 (j : 73., Sackville Gallery). 770. Interior of an Inn with Peasants feasting. Signed, and dated 1632 ; panel, 17^ inches by 22 inches. Sales. Duke of Cleveland, London, March 8, 1902, No. 30. Hermann Zoeppritz, London, May 15, 1908, No. 18 (336, Dowdeswell). Interiors with Peasants. [Two pendants.] Panel, 9 inches by 6 inches. Srf/fc. Property of a lady, H. M. Weston and others, London, July 17, 1908, No. 1 2 (3 : 1 3 : 6, Hassell). 771. The Toast. Sm. Suppl. I. A company of about ten jovial fellows in a room, mostly grouped round a large table. The nearest man has risen from his seat, and raises his glass to propose a toast. A companion on the left, sitting astride of a bench, prepares to reply. A loving couple sit in the right-hand corner. There is a window of five casements, one of which is open ; a man looks in. Described by Sm. from a drawing after Ostade. 772. Peasants at an Inn. Sm. 186. Six men, a woman, and a child. The nearest man sits on a three-cornered chair, holding a glass. He turns towards an old man who embraces the woman ; her arms are round the child, which stands beside her. Opposite to this group two men sit on a form ; one smokes while the other fills a pipe. Described by Sm. from an engraving by W. Baillie. 773. Four Peasants and a Woman at an Inn. Sm. 187. In the left foreground a peasant sits on a stool with his back to the spectator, holding with his right hand a clay pipe that he is smoking. Another man on the right sits on a chair, turned to the left, but looking at the spectator ; his left hand is thrust into the breast of his coat ; his right hand grasps a stemmed glass on the table to the left of him. Between them, but farther back, a man lights his pipe at a small charcoal pan on the table. Next is a seated woman, who pours out a glass of beer from a jug in her right hand
