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 x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 271 In the Palace, Kassel, 1783 inventory, No. 137. In the Louvre, Paris, 1806-15. In the Kassel Gallery, 1903 catalogue, No. 276 (old No. 252). 427. PEASANTS UNDER A VINE -TRELLIS AT AN INN, WITH A BAGPIPER. Sm. 194, and Suppl. 93. Under a vine-trellis in the foreground six peasants and a woman sit or stand round a table, on which lie playing-cards. The foremost man on the right sits on a stool in profile to the left, and takes a glass of beer, which a man standing in front of him has poured out from a jug. Behind the first man sits the woman, leaning back comfortably ; a peasant with a pipe in his hand stands behind and speaks to her. In the left middle distance, the bagpiper plays at the inn door ; two children and a person at the. door listen to him. In the middle distance to the right are other persons conversing and drinking. In the right background are trees. This picture is very good in lighting and colour. It reminds one strongly of the latest of Ostade's pictures at the Mauritshuis, dated 1673 (429). Although this picture and the preceding (426) are separated by an interval of seventeen years, they are closely related in treatment. Signed in full, and dated 1676 on the left, on the back of a bench in the arbour ; panel, 15^ inches by I2| inches. Edited by Dupreel in the Musee Napoleon as " Les Inconvenients du Jeu," and by E. Bovinet under the same title ; also by Longueil in the Poullain Gallery. In the Schloss Altstadt, Kassel, 1783 inventory, No. 53. In the Louvre, Paris, 1806-15. In the Kassel Gallery, 1903 catalogue, No. 277 (old No. 253). 428. THE HURDY-GURDY PLAYER IN THE INN ARBOUR. Under an arbour before an inn which fills the background peasants and children listen to a hurdy-gurdy player who stands in the middle. Those to the left of him sit at a table drinking ; in front of him is a dog ; farther right stand a man and a small boy, with their backs to the spectator ; nearer the front is an overturned bench. The hostess looks out at the inn door. On the right sits a woman with a child. Signed in full on the left, and dated 1643 > P ane l> 1 7 inches by 14 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosife, ii. 494. According to Sedelmeyer's catalogue, it was Engraved by Klauber. In the collection of Admiral Reibak. Sale. Comte de Morny, Paris, May 24, 1852, No. 16 (25,900 francs). But the description of the Morny picture does not agree in details, and its size is not given, so that it may have been a different work. In the possession of the Paris dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. loo. In the collection of William H. Crocker, San Francisco. 429. THE FIDDLER AT A COTTAGE. Sm. 209. On the left, a little way back, stands a fiddler, facing three-quarters right. He wears a blue doublet, brown breeches, and a broad-brimmed hat with a plume. In front of him stands his little guide, with his back to the