450 ISACK VAN OSTADE SECT. from it. On the left, behind the waggon, come a man and a boy, followed by a dog. On a bridge at the back stand two men ; to the right of them and farther back is a church-tower. Signed in full, and dated 1647 ; panel, 25^ inches by 33! inches. In the collection of Count Brilhl. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 963. 34. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. Outside a thatched cottage a peasant lets a saddled grey horse feed at a trough. He cuts a piece of bread for himself. Near him stands a boy in a red jacket. Farther back, at the cottage door, a woman draws a pail of water. An early work. Panel, 20 inches by 2i inches. Acquired by the Tsar Alexander I. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 994. 35. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. The inn is by the roadside. At the door, near a waggon, peasants and travellers are resting. One of them unfastens a sack, near two horses. Behind him is a waggon drawn by two oxen ; on the waggon sits a peasant with a dog. Below him two boys play with marmots. On a bank farther back a woman suckles her infant. Near her are a peasant, three children, and a black dog. Farther to the right are a herd of cows w[th a herdsman and some travellers on the road. On the left a woman draws water from a well. On the right is a view of the distance. A genuine and important work. The foliage is very green and the light is brown, like the house and the ground. Signed on a bank to the right ; 31^ inches by 40^ inches. In the Koucheleff-Besborodko collection, St. Petersburg, 1886 catalogue, No. 57. 36. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. A road, leading from the right background through a wooded landscape, forks in the foreground. At the fork are a woman seated and seen from the back, a man standing, and two boys. In the left middle distance by the roadside is a thatched inn. People stand or sit in front ; among them are a horseman, a saddled horse and an unsaddled grey horse to which a man gives water. A waggon is on the road in the right background. There is a view of a landscape ; in the left distance is the church of Haarlem. Canvas, 41 inches by 41 inches. In the collection of the late William Elkins, Philadelphia, No. 115. 37. THE HALT (or, Travellers halting at a Country Inn). Sm. Suppl. 17. In the left foreground is a cottage with an almost leafless tree. To the right is the inn ; a man looks out of the open window. Between the house and inn runs the village street, which forks in the centre of the middle distance to the right and left of the foreground. At the fork are two horsemen. One man, seen almost in full face, rides a dun-coloured horse. He bends down to the right to speak to the other man who has dismounted from a grey horse with a blue velvet saddle-cloth.
