xi ISACK VAN OSTADE 457 Canvas, 41^ inches by 56^ inches. In the Martini collection, Paris, 1842 (Sm.) ; the collection was sold there on March 23, 1844. 62. Halting at an Inn. Sm. Suppl. 44. Outside an inn on the left a man on a grey horse holds a jug and converses with a boy standing beside him. Behind him, near a pump, a horse feeds from a trough into which an ostler puts fodder ; a man drinks from a jug. In the centre of the middle distance a man leads a laden mule ; near him are a waggon and two figures. Panel, 13 inches by 18 inches. Sale. D. W. Acraman, Bristol, August 1842 (34 : 135., Smith). 62*7. Halting at an Inn. A traveller feeds his horse. Another man gives an alms to a beggar. Sale. Paris, March 4, 1845, No. 68. 63. Halting at an Inn. Sm. 46. In front, by the roadside, a girl milks an ewe. Near her are two sheep. Beyond them, by a pond, are a pig and a four-wheeled waggon with a grey horse that has just been taken out of the shafts. A boy brings fodder. Beside him stands a man. In the centre are three trees. To the right, partly in shadow, is a pond with a dog drinking and a child. Beyond the water is a group of four figures. Farther back is a village inn, with two travellers in front. A horse and waggon with the driver pass along the road, beside which sits a woman. [Possibly identical with 31.] Panel, 28 inches by 36 inches. Sales. Anthony Sijdervelt, Amsterdam, April 23, 1766 (Terw. 516), No. 31 (355 florins, J. M. Kok). P. de Smeth van Alphen, Amsterdam, August i, 1810, No. 28 (5050 florins, Texier). J. B. P. le Brun, Paris, 1811, No. 109 (13,000 francs). Cardinal Fesch, Rome, March 17, 1845, No. 173. 64. Halting at an Inn. Sm. Suppl. 16. Travellers halt at a road- side inn in a wooded landscape. Canvas, 59^ inches by 41 inches. In the Hoofman collection, Haarlem, 1842 (Sm.); at the sale on June 2, 1846, the picture was bought by Nieuwenhuys. 65. Halting at an Inn. Sm. 49, and Suppl. 4. To the left, near a high road, is an inn amid other houses. In the centre is a cart with a grey horse feeding at a trough, into which a man cuts bread. A man in the cart lets down a package to another man standing behind the cart. Nearer to the inn three persons are in a waggon drawn by two horses to which an ostler gives water. Close to the inn are three men and a woman, and a man lifting a trough. On the road are two boys. At the back is the steeple of the village church. A "superb picture" (Sm.). Signed, and dated 1645 ; panel, 36^ inches by 34 inches. Mentioned by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, ii. 280, 292.
