5 io ISACK VAN OSTADE SECT. 221. A Village Festival. A crowd of listeners assemble round some ballad-singers. Others engage in sports. At the back is a landscape with houses. Panel, 22 inches by 28^ inches. Sale. DC Brouwer the younger, Brussels, July 31, 1788, No. 15 (405 florins, Coccerauw). 22iaa. Landscape with Merry Peasants and Women. They dance and gamble. Trees and buildings. Dated 1646; panel, 19^ inches by 31 inches. Sale. Leyden, April 30, 1791, No. 7. 2210. Peasants and Women dancing. Outside a cottage. Farther away are children and a bagpiper. Panel, 25 inches by 38 inches. Sale. J. C. Werther, Amsterdam, April 25, 1792, No. 358. 221 b. Peasants and Women drinking and dancing. In an interior. Panel, 19 inches by 24 inches. Sale. Fiseau (?), Amsterdam, August 30, 1797, No. 169 (82 florins, La Boug). 221 c. Peasants, Women, and Children singing and drinking. In a cottage. Panel, 12 inches by 17 inches. Sale. Jos. Valette and others, Amsterdam, August 26, 1807, No. 164 (4 florins). 22id. A Cottage Interior. Merry folk amusing themselves in various ways. Farther back lies a dog, with domestic accessories. Panel, 7 inches by 8 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, August 6, 1810, No. 85 (60 florins, Pot). 221 e. Peasants and Women singing and drinking. Panel, 14^ inches by 13^ inches. Sale. Rotterdam, April 25, 1817, No. 9 (26 florins, Loef). 2217; Five Persons playing Music and drinking. In an interior. Copper, 6 inches by 8| inches. Sale. Amsterdam, October 30, 1823, No. 194 (7 florins 5). 222. Peasants dancing to the Music of a Fiddle. Outside a cottage. Panel, 20 inches by 26^ inches. Sale. Fr. J. Mensart and others, Amsterdam, September 2, 1824, No. 126 (115 florins, Verkolje). 2220. Peasants dancing to the Music of a Fiddle. In a cottage, with other peasants. [Possibly an exterior.]
