Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 3, 1910.djvu/308

 294 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. 501. COUNTRY PEOPLE WITH CHILDREN. Outside a house door in the light of a candle which a woman holds but which is not seen. Signed in full ; panel, 8 inches by 7 inches. In the collection of J. Amsinck, Hamburg ; bequeathed to the Kunsthalle in 1879. In the Hamburg Kunsthalle, 1887 catalogue, No. 124. 502. BUYING FISH. A woman with a child in her arms stands outside a cottage door, waiting for a man who is cleaning fish. On the other side a boy and a child look on. Beside the man is a basket of fish ; he stands under a vine trellis. The figures are rather large ; a work of the late period, dating about 1675. [Compare 504^.] Panel, 15 J inches by 14 inches. Mentioned by Waagen, Suppl. 88. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1893, No. 78. In the collection of the Marquess of Hertford. In the Wallace Collection, 1901 catalogue, No. 202. 503. A PEASANT FAMILY IN A COURTYARD. Sm. 1 88. In the shadowed corner of a courtyard an old woman sits on a chair cleaning mussels. On the ground in front of her are a dish of mussels and a pail. To the left a girl sits on the ground, holding a little child. A man stands at a little open door in the back wall, watching the old woman. In the right foreground a boy and a little girl, seated on the ground with her back to the spectator, play with a dog. Behind them is a wooden erection, overgrown with vine, against the house-wall. In the left background, over the courtyard wall, are seen the gable of another house and a peasant. Unusually well preserved ; a fine example of the latest and richly coloured style. Signed in full, and dated 1673 ; canvas, 18 inches by 15 inches. Mentioned by W. Biirger, Tresors cT Art en Angkterre, p. 312; and by Waagen, ii. 1 19. Engraved in colours by Janinet after the original drawing for the picture. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1815 ; at Manchester, 1857, No. 735 ; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1881, No. 1 06. Sales. Swalmius, Rotterdam, March 15, 1747 (Hoet, ii. 196), No. 2 (775 florins). Jaques de Roore, Rotterdam, September 4, 1747 (Hoet, ii. 206), No. 84 (684 florins, Bisschop). In the Bisschop collection, Rotterdam, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 528) ; sold as a whole in 1771 to the Hopes. In the collection of Thomas Hope, London, 1829 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, Deepdene ; sold as a whole to the London dealers P. and D. Colnaghi and A. Wertheimer, 1898. In the collection of P. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia, 1904 catalogue, No. 234. 503*. Numerous Figures outside a House. 17^ inches by 16 inches. In the collection of G. van Slingeland, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 405).