476 ISACK VAN OSTADE SECT. to the right a peasant, seen from the back, bends over a basket. Behind him stands another man, and to the right, beside the first man, is a little boy. In front are two hens. In the right foreground is a pump. Signed "Isaac - " j panel, 20 inches by 26 J inches. Sale. Freiherr von Fechenbach and others, Cologne, May 29, 1889, No. 54 (450 mark, Van den Burgh). In the Weber collection, Hamburg, 1892 catalogue, No. 239. Sale. P. Mersch, Berlin, March i, 1905, No. 77. In the possession of the New York dealer L. R. Ehrich. 131. INTERIOR OF A STABLE. In the right foreground a saddled horse stands at a manger. Behind it is a window with small panes, admitting the daylight. On the left a man with a shovel cleans the stable. At the back are a goat and a cart. Signed in full, and dated 164- (1643, according to the Sedelmeyer and Beurnonville catalogues) ; panel, 15^ inches by i8| inches. Sales. Albert Levy, London, June 16, 1876. Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, May 6, 1881, No. 412. In the possession of the Paris dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer. In the collection of the late C. T. Yerkes, New York, 1904 catalogue, No. 73; sold, New York, April 7 and 8, 1910. 131*. Interior with a Cow being milked. Sale. (Supplementary) T. Stuyteling, Haarlem, April 26, 1768, No. 100 (13 florins, Laurens van der Vinne). A Woman milking a Cow in a Hut. Signed in full, and dated 1645 ; panel, i8| inches by 27 inches. In the Ritterich collection, Leipzig, before 1860 (Parthey, ii. 210). 1 3 ic. A Woman milking a Cow in an Interior. She sits on the left near an open door which admits the daylight. In the middle distance are two hens. Numerous domestic utensils lie around. [Pendant to 170^.] Signed in full on a board in the left foreground, and dated 1642 ; panel, 15^ inches by 24 inches. Sales. F. E. Day de Rivet, Leyden, September 24, 1764, No. 5 (25 florins 10). Soeterwoude, August 14, 1776, No. 13. Georg Finger des Raths, Frankfort-on-Main, May 21, 1874, No. 50. Interior of a Stable. At the manger are a reddish -grey horse and a bay horse. Some sheep lie near them. In the middle distance a peasant is getting fodder. In the right background is a cow. Panel, 12 inches by i6 inches. Sale. Forst and others, Cologne, December 13, 1899, No. 88. 132. INTERIOR OF A STABLE. In the centre, at the manger, are two horses seen in a three-quarter view to the right from the back. To the left, in front of them, a peasant, seen in full face,
