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 x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 377 765-7. Peasants drinking and smoking. They sit in an interior. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 1 1 inches by 14^ inches. Sale. Julius Caesar von Kotsch-Etterbeck, Frankfort-on-the-Main, March 19, 1907, No. 2. 765^. Interior with Peasants. Panel, 17 J inches by 15 inches. Sale. London, March 23, 1907, No. 136. 766. PEASANTS AT AN INN. Sm. 71. About ten figures. Four are grouped round a table in front ; two sit and two stand. A fifth man, seated in the middle, plays the violin. At the hearth a boy stirs the fire. Near a window at the back three men play cards. A jug and other objects are in the foreground. Signed on the left, and dated 1663 or 1665 ; panel, 16 inches by 18 inches. Mentioned by Waagen, ii. 107. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1890, No. 67. Sales. Trouart, Paris, February 22, 1779 (3700 francs). Due d'Alberg, Paris, 1817 (367 : ios.). In the collection of Alexander Baring, London, 1829 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Ashburton, The Grange, bought as a whole by the London dealers Messrs. T. Agnew and Sons and others, August 1907. 767. PEASANTS AT AN INN. In the centre of a homely room, with a staircase in the right background leading up to another room, four peasants are grouped round a table.' The nearest man, in a wine- coloured jacket and blue breeches, sits in profile to the right, resting his right leg on a bench. He drains a tall glass, and holds a jug on his knee with his right hand. Behind him stands another man with a red cap, who bends forward to him. At the back of the table sits the third man, dressed in black ; he grasps the arm of a girl standing beside him to the right, and draws her towards him. In front of her sits the fourth man, in profile to the left ; he leans his left arm on the table, and looks at the first two men ; he has a clay pipe in his hand. In the left background an old woman sits by the hearth ; a little girl, seen from the back, is in front of the fire. To the right, at the foot of the staircase, stands a copper pot. Panel, 12 inches by 16 inches. Sales. (Probably) Brussels, July I, 1903, No. 59 similar in theme, signed on the left at foot, and measuring ^ inches by 17 inches. Ch. Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 25, 1907, No. 148 (4700 francs). 768. FOUR TOPERS AT AN INN. Sm. Suppl. 83. They are grouped round a table. One man, wearing a red jacket and a black cap, sits with his back to a window on the left, filling his pipe. Another man, wearing a yellowish-brown jacket and a white hat, has risen to pour out a glass of beer. The third man tells a story ; the fourth stands behind him. In the background three other persons are near the fire. Signed in full on the right, but the signature is doubtful ; panel, 13 inches by n inches.