xi ISACK VAN OSTADE 443 from him. In the left background is a village with a church. In the centre foreground are two boys, one standing and the other seated. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 15^ inches by i inches. Sale. Henri Cousin, Paris, March 21, 1853. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 8456. 10. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. In the right foreground is a large tree. Behind it to the left is a four-wheeled waggon with two horses one of them a grey horse facing left ; the horses feed from a trough. A woman and a man seated in the waggon converse with a man standing near. In the right middle distance is an inn. In the left background is a church with a steeple. In the foreground and middle distance are many other figures, with two dogs and two hens. Signed in full on the left at foot ; panel, 14 inches by i inches. Exhibited at Berlin, 1906, No. 97. In the collection of Carl von Hollitscher, Berlin. 11. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. Sm. Suppl. 13. A road leads from the right foreground to the centre of the middle distance, where there are two horsemen. One, in a yellow riding-coat, rides a chestnut horse. The other, in a black coat, rides a black horse. On the right a grey horse stands at a trough. There are also a lady and gentleman with a groom. On the right, behind this group, are two high trees and a meadow ; to the left is an inn, with a waggon and several figures in front of it. At the back is a village with a church. On the right is a view over a flat landscape. Signed in full, and dated " 1660," which is, of course, a forgery, as the painter died in 1649 > canvas, 32^- inches by 39 inches. In the Van der Schrieck collection, Louvain, 1842 (Sm.). Sale. D. van der Schrieck of Louvain, Brussels, April 8, 1861, No. 77 (7500 francs, for the Museum). In the Brussels Museum, 1906 catalogue, No. 342. 12. TWO HORSEMEN HALTING AT AN INN. One man rides a dappled grey horse ; the other stands beside a grey horse and holds a beer-glass. A man stands near a trough in front of the inn. Two boys are at the open half-door. Mentioned by Waagen, ii. 247. In the collection of Sir Audley Neeld, Grittleton House. 13. TWO HORSEMEN HALTING AT AN INN. A third horse is drinking, and a fourth is feeding. In the Hoogendijk collection, The Hague, No. 146 ; it was not in the Rijksmuseum nor in either of the two sales. 14. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. One man rides a grey horse ; another is on foot. Signed in full ; panel, 14^ inches by 12 inches. Bequeathed by J. Amsinck, 1879, to t ^ ie Kunsthalle. In the Hamburg Kunsthalle, 1887 catalogue, No. 125.
