xi ISACK VAN OSTADE 497 189. Peasants at Table. Three peasants, a woman, and a child are at table in a room. Panel, 9 inches by n inches. Sale. Kien van Citters, Amsterdam, August 21, 1798, No. 53 (116 florins 10, Josi). 189^. Interior with Peasants eating, drinking, and smoking. 10 inches by 14 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, August 6, 1816, No. 59. 189^. Peasants eating, drinking, and smoking. In an interior. Sale. Ph. van der Schley and D. du Pre, Amsterdam, December 22, 1817, No. 78 (14 florins, Brondgeest). 189*:. Peasants eating and drinking. In an interior. Panel, 9 inches by 13 inches. Sale. J. F. Sigault, Amsterdam, December 3, 1833, No. 153 (10 florins 50). 189^. Peasants at Table. Near the fireside two peasants and a woman with an infant on her lap sit at table. The light enters at a window. Various household utensils. Panel, 14 inches by 18 inches. Sales. Fiseau (?), Amsterdam, August 30, 1797, No. 168 (30 florins). A. Hulsen, Amsterdam, May 2, 1854, No. 79. 189*. Peasants at Table. In the Royal Palace, Schleissheim, 1862 (Parthey, ii. 210) ; but no longer there. The Interrupted Breakfast. Panel, 6 inches by 13 inches. Sale. Baron de S - , Paris, May 3, 1869, No. 46. 190. PEASANTS AT TABLE. In a barn three peasants, a woman, and two children are at table. One man has carved a ham. The little girl sits on the floor, eating her soup with a spoon. Panel, 10 inches by 12 inches. Sale. Werner Dahl of Diisseldorf, Amsterdam, October 17, 1905, No. 113 (i i 50 florins, Wente). 191. THE CONVERSATION. In the centre of a cottage room, lighted from a window on the left, sits a woman at her spinning-wheel. She speaks to a man standing before her to the left, and gesticulating wildly. In the right background sits a woman by the fireside. A small round picture. In the Cologne Museum, 1902 catalogue, No. 700. 191*. Five Peasants conversing. Sale. Van der Meir, Antwerp, June 23, 1755 (Terw. 135), No. 21 (23 florins). VOL. Ill 2 K
