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 248 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. drawn a row of heads with text underneath. She laughs, and seems to call the attention of the peasant sitting opposite her to the right ; he holds the paper with his right hand. To the right, behind the woman, stands another elderly man wearing a hat; he holds up his spectacles in his left hand, and also looks at the paper ; his right hand, grasping a clay pipe, rests on the window-sill. On the table are playing-cards, a cloth, and a full beer- glass. By the wall to the left is a large cupboard. In the right back- ground, through an arched doorway, there is a view of another room with a window. Signed, and dated 1664 ; panel, 12 inches by 10 inches. Mentioned by Descamps ; and by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiositi, ii. 161, 208. Engraved by Le Bas, in 1771, in the Choiseul Gallery ; then in the collec- tion of the Due de Praslin. Exhibited in the British Institution, London, 1832, by R. Ludgate. In the collection of Count van Wassenaar, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 401). Sales. Gerard Braamcamp, Amsterdam, 1771 (340 florins). Choiseul-Praslin, Paris, February 18, 1793 (3800 francs). Helsleuter (Van Eyl Sluyter ?), Paris, January 25, 1802 (4400 francs, Jaufret). In the collection of Robert Ludgate, London, 1832. In the collection of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Paris. 356. TWO MEN AND A WOMAN AT MUSIC (or, The Concert). Sm. Suppl. 123. In a rustic interior two men sit at a bench, on which lie music-books and a flute. The man on the right is dressed in black, red, and yellow, and plays the bass viol. The man on the left, dressed in light-brown, black, and purple, holds his fiddle in his left hand and his bow in the other, and turns over a leaf of the music. Between them, behind the bench, sits a young woman holding a music-book and singing. At the fiddler's feet lies a dog. On the left, three children look in at the open window. At the back of the room are a cupboard and a staircase. On the wall hang a mandoline and a fiddle. " Painted in a free and spirited manner " (Sm.). Signed in full, but not clearly, on the right at foot, and dated 1645 the third figure is scarcely legible, but must on stylistic grounds be a 4 ; panel, 15 inches by 12 inches. In the Crozat collection. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 95 I ; it was there in 1842 (Sm., who valued it at ji6o). 357. TWO MEN AND A WOMAN AT MUSIC. In the right foreground an old peasant woman, seated in profile to the left at a table, sings from a paper which she holds in both hands. On the left opposite her, and behind the table, a fiddler sits on a chair. On the table in the left foreground is a big earthenware jug. Behind the woman stands another man playing the flute. Signed in full, and dated 1640 ; circular panel, 8 inches across. In the collection of Sir F. Cook, Bart., Richmond, No. 156. 358. TWO MEN AND A WOMAN AT MUSIC (or, The