xi ISACK VAN OSTADE 461 > 77#. Halting at an Inn. In a river landscape. 51 inches by 64 inches. Sale. Britten Slee and others, London, March 25, 1901, No. 32.
- 77^. Outside an Inn. Travellers on foot halt at the roadside.
Panel, 22 inches by 28 inches. Sale. Arthur Kay of Glasgow, London, May 1 1, 1901, No. 94. 77<r. Halting at an Inn. Panel, io| inches by 15 inches. Sale. Delassue, Paris, December 22, 1905, No. 70. 78. HALTING AT AN INN. Outside an inn are a group of peasants and a waggon with a grey horse and a bay, which are feeding. A horseman drinks. In the middle distance a woman combs her child's hair. In the left foreground are a fiddler, three adults, and a boy. On the right, beyond a puddle, is a view. 33^ inches by 48 inches. Sale. Duke of Fife, London, June 7, 1907, No. 106 (141 : 153., P. and D. Colnaghi). 79. Halting at an Inn. Sm. 44 and 48. On the right is a picturesque inn at which many travellers halt. A man seated on the shaft of a covered waggon converses with a young maid-servant holding a jug and carrying a basket on her back. Near her stands a child. Another man, lying on the ground, joins in the conversation. Farther back three children are at play. Outside the inn door an ostler feeds a horse which has been taken out of the shafts of a waggon that two peasants are loading. On the other side two travellers put a trunk into a waggon drawn by a grey horse. From the left come other people and a timber-waggon drawn by numerous horses. In the centre foreground a boy walks through a pond. Near him is a dog. "This picture is not only of the choicest quality, but is also remarkably rich in figures and variety of scenery " (Sm.). Panel, 33 inches by 43 inches. Mentioned by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, ii. 332 ; and by Waagen, ii. 107. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1819. Sales. H. Muilman, Amsterdam, April 12, 1813, No. 118 (5050 florins). Prince de Talleyrand, Paris, July 7, 1817, No. 24 (Talleyrand had paid 14,000 francs for it, according to Sm.) ; bought with the whole collection by Buchanan for Gray and Allnut. In the collection of Alexander Baring, 1829 (Sm. ; Baring had paid 735 for it). Sale. Russell Gurney, London, May 13, 1870 (105, Wright). 80. HALTING AT AN INN IN WINTER (or, View on a Canal in Winter). Sm. Suppl. 14. To the left is the frozen canal with many figures. In front are three boys, one seated on a sledge, another pushing it, and the third following. Outside a tent in the middle distance are several travellers. To the right of them is a sledge with a grey horse ; farther to the right another horse is feeding. On a dyke behind them is a
