4/4 ISACK VAN OSTADE SECT. Mentioned by Waagen, Suppl. 297. In the collection of John Walter, Bearwood. In the collection of the late Alfred Beit, London. In the collection of Otto Beit, London. 124. A PACK-ASS WITH ITS DRIVER. On a road in the centre is an ass laden with various utensils. The driver sits to the left in the shade of a bank with trees. On the right is a view of the distance. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 13! inches by n inches. Sale. Jan Maul and others, Leyden, September 28, 1782, No. 72 (70 florins, Coders). In the Zweibriicken Gallery. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 380. 125. A DUTCH LANDSCAPE. Sm. 16 and 41. A flooded road leads from the left foreground to the right middle distance and there bends to the left. In the centre foreground is a boy dragging forward a calf. On the road to the left of him a horseman, seen from the back, carries a yoke on his back and holds a milk-pail on his left arm. A girl, with two milk-pails on a yoke, crosses his path and looks up at him. From the middle distance come a two-wheeled cart and horse led by a man walking at the side. In the left background are houses and trees. On the extreme left are three willows. Signed in full ; panel, 15 inches by 19 inches. Sm. inaccurately suggests that this may be identical with 58. Sales. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 303 (445 florins, Yver). Lord Rendlesham, London, 1809 (49:75.) according to Sm. ; but more probably at the Rendlesham sale of June 20, 1806. In the collection of Colonel Hankey, Beaulieu, Hastings. In the possession of the Paris dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of loo Paintings," 1899, No. 34. In the possession of the London dealer Lawrie. In the collection of Adolphe Schloss, Paris. 126. THE FERRY-BOAT PUTTING OFF. In the boat are a peasant with two cows, a woman seated with a brightly burnished copper can, two young cavaliers one of them on horseback and a boy with a basket of poultry. On the right-hand edge of the boat crouches a dog. On the right, beyond the boat, is a steep bank with trees. Panel, 10 inches by 12 inches. Sales. Gaignat, Paris, December 1768. Due de Choiseul, Paris, December 18, 1787. Baron de Varange, Paris, May 26, 1852, No. 32 (2900 francs). Goecke and others, Cologne, June 5, 1893, No. 165. Werner Dahl of Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, October 17, 1905, No. in (2100 florins, Johnson). In the collection of John G. Johnson, Philadelphia. 127. A Landscape with Cottages. Sm. 50, and Suppl. 35. A road winds through the landscape. To the right are cottages partly shaded by lofty trees, beyond which is a bushy hedge skirting the road. A man
