5 1 4 ISACK VAN OSTADE SECT. 2337. Backgammon Players. In a cottage. Other persons smoke. Panel, 15 inches by 15 inches. Sale. Haarlem, August 18, 1840, No. 36 (20 florins). 233^. Peasants and Women playing Cards. In a cottage. Circular panel, 8 inches across. Sale. M. Th. Wittebol and De Labistraeten, Antwerp, June 19, 1804, No. 129 (85 florins). 2337. Peasants playing Cards, smoking, and drinking. In a cottage. Accessories. Panel, 5^ inches by 8 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, June 20, 1810, No. 71 (4 florins 5, Van Yperen). 233^7. Card-Players. In a cottage peasants sit at table playing cards. Sale. Amsterdam, August 15, 1825, No. 287 (6 florins 10). 234. Two Pictures of Peasants smoking, drinking, and playing Cards. In an inn. [Pendants.] Panel, n inches by 14^ inches. Sale. Amsterdam, May 14, 1832, No. 74 (50 florins, Lupperts). 235. Peasants playing Cards. In a spacious room two peasants, one standing, the other seated, play cards at a table. A third man smokes. A boy eats something with a spoon out of a pot. On the beams of the room lie hay, straw, brushwood, old baskets, and brooms. On the floor stands a cask with a spigot ; near it are a broom, a pot, a bundle of straw, old shoes, and cards. Panel, 25^ inches by 32 inches. Sale. Freiherr C. von Mergenbaum, Frankfort-on-Main, July 13, 1846, No. 60. 235*. A Peasant and Woman playing Cards. Panel, 10 inches by 12 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, October 27, 1874, No. 66. 235^. A Rustic Couple playing Cards. In a poorly furnished room a peasant plays cards with his wife. Two people look on, with two children. Formerly ascribed to Pieter Quast. Panel, 9 inches by u inches. Sale. Clave-Bouhaben, Cologne, June 4, 1894, No. 283. 236. CARD-PLAYERS. In a thatched cottage two peasants sit at table playing cards. Two other peasants, one of whom stands holding a clay pipe in his left hand, watch the game, with a little girl. Behind them is a sixth person seen from the back. Signed in full ; panel, 21 inches by 16 inches. Sale. Werner Dahl of Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, October 17, 1905, No. no (1500 florins). 236*. Peasants playing Skittles, smoking, and drinking. Outside a house. The tower of the village church is seen.
