Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 3, 1910.djvu/315

 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 301 522^. Peasants singing. Sale. Willem van Haansbergen, The Hague, June 19, 1755 (Terw. 128), No. 20 No. 107 of the original catalogue (40 florins 5, Van Breemen). $22gg. A Village Concert. 1 6 inches by 12 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, November 25, 1761, No. 17 (23 florins 10, Eleveld). Peasants at Music in an Interior. Three peasants and a woman sing. Farther away are a little child and a youth lighting his pipe. Panel, 8 inches by 6 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, May 23, 1764, No. 73 (n florins 10, Zaayer). 522/1. Peasants singing, with a Woman. In an interior. [Pendant to 685^.] Sale. M. Elgersma and others, Amsterdam, March 24, 1766, No. 5 (27 florins, Winter). 522/. Peasants gambling and singing. In an interior. Sale. M. Elgersma and others, Amsterdam, March 24, 1766, No. 15 (10 florins 10, Winter). 523. Peasants at Music. In an interior. In front sits a woman singing j beside her a man plays the violin. Other peasants and women. Panel, 14 inches by 17^ inches. Sale. Antony Grill, Amsterdam, April 10, 1776, No. n (350 florins, Wubbels). 524. A Rustic Concert. Sm. 123. Four persons sit singing. One, facing the spectator, is behind a table, beating time. Another listens attentively, with two others who approach the table. Farther away stands a peasant with bowed head, playing the violin. A woman nurses her child. A little boy gives food to a dog. Panel, 13 inches by 17 inches or 12 inches by 12 inches, according to Sm. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 215. In the collection of the Elector of Cologne. Sale. Franfois Pauwels, Brussels, August 22, 1803 (933 florins, Van Bree). 524^. A Concert. Supposed to contain portraits of A. van Ostade, his wife, and his father. Sale. Edward Coxe, London, April 23, 1807. 525. Peasants at Music in an Interior. Beside a window in the left foreground three peasants and a woman sit at a table. One man plays the fiddle ; another man, with a pipe in his hand, listens. Farther back, at the fireside, are other men and a woman with a child. On the floor lie rustic utensils.