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 x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 273 432. A BAGPIPER AT AN INN. Sm. 189, and Suppl. 88. On the right is a roadside inn. In an arbour on the extreme right four peasants and a woman sit round a table, drinking beer and listening to a wandering bagpiper, who stands to the left near them. A little boy with a basket in his left arm stands beside him. Farther back, a woman looks out at the inn door ; near her are two peasants. Another man brings forward a crib, while a woman and child look on. In the left background is a tilted waggon. In the left foreground a pipe lies on a little bench ; near it are hens. Signed in full, and dated 1657 but 1659, according to Sm. and the Hope catalogue ; copper, io| inches by 13! inches. Exhibited by the London dealer Larkin, 1892 catalogue, No. 52 ; described in the catalogue as genuine. Mentioned by Waagen, ii. 119. In the collection of Thomas Hope, 1829 (Sm.) ; and of Henry Thomas Hope, 1842 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, Deepdene, 1891 catalogue, No. 84 ; sold as a whole in 1898 to the London dealers P. and D. Colnaghi and A. Wertheimer. Sale. H. P. Cunliffe and others, London, May 9, 1903, No. 128. In the possession of the Paris dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1905, No. 26. In the collection of William Asch, London. 433. THE ITINERANT MUSICIAN. Sm. 219. Six figures, half-length. They stand under an archway, through which are seen a cottage and trees to the right. In the centre foreground a little boy plays the fiddle. His felt hat is cocked over his ear, and he looks at the spectator. To the left, a little behind him, a hurdy-gurdy player with a large felt hat stands turning the handle of his instrument with his right hand ; he also looks at the spectator. Behind him to the left are the heads of two little girls ; on the right is a somewhat bigger boy, behind whom the face of another is partly seen. A fine picture of the good period ; warm in tone. [Possibly identical with 438*7.] Panel, 14 inches by 12 inches. Engraved by Cornelis Visscher (Wussin, 161). Exhibited in the Rembrandt Exhibition of the Amsterdam dealers Fred. Muller and Co., Amsterdam, 1906, No. 95. Sales. Baron Nagel, London, March 8, 1795 Ciio : 55.). Baron de Hirsch, London, February 6, 1897, No. 46. C. F. Huth and others, London, March 19, 1904, No. 115. In the possession of Sir G. Donaldson, London. 434. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. Numerous travellers halt at a roadside inn. Among them are two riders, one seen from the back on a grey horse, the other about to mount a bay horse. Nearer to the inn door, at which stands a hurdy-gurdy player and a young fiddler, a group are seated at table, attended by a woman. Children sur- round the musicians. At the back a woman descends from a tilted waggon. Near a trough in the centre foreground are two pigs. A good picture, in the style of Isack, but unquestionably the work of Adriaen van Ostade. VOL. Ill T