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 x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 281 on the floor at her feet. A boy seated on a stool plays on a triangle (?). At the back is the hearth. [Compare 475^.] Signed in full, and dated 163-; oval panel, about io| inches by 15 inches. Mentioned by Parthey (ii. 207) as a sketch, with some variations, for the picture at Frankfort (455). Sale. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 301 (101 florins, Roos) said to measure 10 inches by 1 1 inches. According to the catalogue, the supposed boy with a triangle is really a man winding yarn. This is probably true of the Ham- burg picture. The yarn-winder is also mistaken for a triangle in the catalogue description of the Karlsruhe picture (457). [Com- pare also 454.] In the Hudtwalcker- Wesselhoeft collection, Hamburg, 1889 catalogue, P- 53- In the Hamburg Kunsthalle, Wesselhoeft bequest. 457. A FISHERMAN'S FAMILY IN THEIR COTTAGE. A peasant sits in a chair in front of a wooden partition. He holds a yarn-winder (not a triangle, as the catalogue states). On a stool beside him to the right lies a pipe. Behind him to the right his wife is busy at the fire, over which hangs a pot. Two children watch her. An old waggon-wheel is placed against a post in front. [Compare 456.] Signed in full, and dated 1636 ; panel, 7^ inches by 6 inches. In the Karlsruhe Picture Gallery, 1894 catalogue, No. 244. 458. A PEASANT FAMILY. In front, in the right centre, a peasant dressed in pink and white sits facing left, seen from the back in a three-quarter-view. He watches two children playing with a dog. Behind him is a man seated, with a woman. To the right stands a man in a bluish -grey jacket. Farther right, beside the hearth, sits an old man embracing a jug and looking to the left with a smile. A fine picture of the early period. Very delicate in its yellowish-brown tones, and less harsh in the lighting than is usual at this period. The light and shade is remarkably well developed. It seemed at first as if the date should be 1656, but the types of the figures do not accord with so late a date. Signed in full, and dated 1636 ; panel, u inches by 14 inches. Sale. Elector of Cologne, 1764. In the Copenhagen Museum, 1904 catalogue, No. 256. 459. THREE CHILDREN SEATED IN AN INTERIOR. One seated on the floor eats broth. A cat is on a stool. The back wall is strongly illumined. Catalogued as by " Ostade." [Compare 482*.] Signed in full ; panel, 8| inches by 8 inches. In the collection of Antoine Brasseur, bequeathed to the Museum in 1879. In the Lille Museum, Brasseur bequest, 1893 catalogue, 581. 460. THE INTERIOR OF A PEASANT'S COTTAGE. Sm. 146, and Suppl. 71. Near a large window on the left stands a small octagonal table, half-covered with a white cloth, on which are a loaf, a