386 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. Exhibited in the Hoogendijk Exhibition, Rotterdam, 1899, No. 3. Acquired from Vienna. In the Hoogendijk collection, The Hague ; exhibited on loan in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1907 catalogue, second supplement, No. 1821/7. 794. PEASANTS DANCING OUTSIDE AN INN. A couple dance to the music of a bagpiper. In the right foreground a couple embrace. In all there are about forty peasants, both adults and children. To the left of the centre are a well-dressed man and his wife, obviously portraits painted in by another hand. The main lines of the composition run from the right foreground diagonally across the picture. The pre- vailing tone is yellowish. Signed in full, and dated in the left centre 1640 ; panel. Mentioned by Dr. H. W. Singer in the Burlington Magazine for October 1909, p. 62. In the Wesendonk collection. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin ; presented by Wesendonk's executors, 1909. 795. A Peasant Couple dancing in Front of an Inn. The woman wears a grey skirt, a white apron, a lilac jacket, and a white cap ; the man wears a dark coat, a shirt open at the neck, and a blue cap. She holds him with both hands. Behind them, on a raised place, stands a fiddler playing. Round them are three peasants and three women who smoke and drink. A peasant is at the open door ; another man leans out of the window. In the background are trees and a cottage. Signed in full at foot a little to the right of the centre, and dated 16 ; oval panel, 10 inches by 14 inches. Acquired about 1897 from the Konigswarter collection, Vienna. In the Gerhardt collection, Budapest. 796. A VILLAGE FAIR WITH PEASANTS AND WOMEN DANCING OUTSIDE AN INN. A fiddler plays a dance tune. Other peasants sit or stand round, looking on, and smoke and drink. Of the late period ; very much in the style of Dusart. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 21 inches by 26 inches. In the Darmstadt Museum, 1885 catalogue, No. 362. 797. Peasants dancing outside a House. Near the door is a musician with drum and flute. On the right peasants sit on a bench. Dark in tone. In the collection of Sir Audley Neeld, Grittleton House. 798. PEASANTS DANCING OUTSIDE A HOUSE.-Near the door is a fiddler. On the right is a group of spectators, among them a woman with a child on her lap. In the left background are various groups. The village church tower rises above the trees and cottages. Blue sky. Signed in full j canvas, 15 inches by 20 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1893, No. 72. In the collection of Mrs. Joseph, London.
