xi ISACK VAN OSTADE 481 143^. Killing an Ox. On the right, outside an inn, two men kill an ox. Children and others look on. In the left distance, beyond a little copse, rise the towers of a village church. 1 8 inches by 25^ inches. Sale. Von Schauss-Kempfenhausen, Cologne, April 29, 1901, No. 76. 144. INTERIOR WITH A PIG'S CARCASE. In the right centre a pig's carcase hangs on a ladder placed against a beam. On the beam are various kitchen utensils, baskets, pots, and vegetables. To the left are three children. A boy seated, and seen from the left and back in a three-quarter view, blows out the bladder. Another boy and a girl, seen almost in full face, look at him and smile. On the right an old woman, turned three-quarters right, sits by the fire, holding a spoon in her right hand. To the right, in front of her, is a large trough. In the left fore- ground are various utensils. On the right lies a dog gnawing a bone ; a hen on the left watches him. A very characteristic example of the early period. [Compare 145.] Signed in full on a piece of wood in front, and dated 1639 ; panel, 17^ inches by 26^ inches. In the Electoral Gallery, Munich. In the Augsburg Gallery, 1899 catalogue, No. 585. 145. The Pig's Carcase. It hangs on a ladder in an interior. A woman in dark green sits by the fire, with a boy in a dark green hat. There is a vivid red in the carcase, and a paler red in the brick wall. Almost all the rest is brown and yellow, with a somewhat bluish tone. It is closely related to 144, and is probably of the same period. In the Holscher-Stumpf collection, Berlin, described by Max G. Zimmer- mann, 1908. 146. THE PIG'S CARCASE. In a slaughter-house there are three figures on the right, and two children with a bladder farther back. Near them is the carcase. Good in quality. Signed in full, and dated 1642 ; panel, 15 inches by 2i| inches. In the collection of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, bought by the Hungarian Government. In the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1906 catalogue, No. 532 (old No. 282). 147. THE PIG'S CARCASE. In the right centre of an interior a pig's carcase hangs on a ladder. In the right foreground are a pump and other accessories. On a cask to the left a woman, seen from the back, sits cleaning the entrails. A man, facing the spectator, watches her ; he holds something in his left hand. To the right a dog gnaws a bone. In the background a man stands and another sits before the fire ; both are seen from the back. In the collection of the late George Rath, Budapest, 1895 ; but not mentioned in the 1906 catalogue. 148. THE PIG'S CARCASE. It hangs on a ladder in a cottage. A woman, surrounded by children at play, makes sausages. VOL. Ill 2 I
