5 2 4 ISACK VAN OSTADE SECT. on his back, preceded by a dog. The frozen river stretches away into the distance. In the right foreground a grey horse draws a sledge laden with a cask and driven by a man. To the left are three boys and a dog. More figures are seen in the distance, including a horseman on the bank beyond the bridge. A "very beautiful little picture " (Sm.). Signed in full; panel, 19 inches by 15^ inches. Mentioned by Waagen, i. 405. Sales. Sir Simon Clarke, Bart., and G. Hibbert, London, May 14, 1802 (232 : is. or jl62 : 153., according to Sm.). Lady Drummond Smith, London, 1835 G^ 1 ? 1 * Peacock). In the collection of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., 1842 (Sm.) ; bought with the collection for the National Gallery in 1871. In the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 848. 255. A WINTER SCENE. A broad frozen river fills the fore- ground and stretches away into the left distance. On it are many skaters and sledges pushed by men or drawn by horses. In the immediate fore- ground a man pushes another man in a sledge to the left front. To the right of them are a little boy with a golf-stick, a dog, and a little child in a sledge. Behind the child, farther back, is a laden sledge drawn by two horses, one of them a grey, with two men, a woman, and a dog at the horses' heads. On the right two men drag and push a sledge over a little wooden bridge to an open doorway in a wall, close to a round tower. The tower is connected by a long and high wooden bridge with another tower farther back, beyond which stretches the wall leading to a third tower. To the left of this tower, in the distance, is the low right bank of the river with a few trees on the horizon. In the left foreground is a small clump of trees with a boat to the right and part of a shed to the left. More or less pale in tone. Signed in full on the boat to the left ; canvas, 33 inches by 42 inches. In the collection of Sir Richard Wallace. In the Wallace Collection, London, 1908 catalogue, No. 73. 256. A WINTER LANDSCAPE. In the right foreground is a pond, with trees beside it. Along a road comes a waggon laden with wood, drawn by three horses, on one of which a man rides. The road leads up a little hill. From the opposite direction comes a sportsman with his dog and gun. Signed in full ; panel, 15 J inches by 2o inches. Mentioned by Waagen, Suppl. I 39. In the collection of Lord Overstone, London ; bought in 1837. In the collection of Lady Wantage, London, 1905 catalogue, No. 171. 257. VIEW ON A CANAL IN WINTER. On a frozen canal are many figures. In the right centre of the foreground a man pushes a child on a sledge towards the left foreground ; to the left of it stands a dog. Farther left a man kneels to fasten his right skate. Behind him, four people in a sledge drive towards the right distance. On the extreme left is the high bank with a big willow. On the right is a view of the distance. [Pendant to 172.]
