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 4 i4 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. 892^. The Peasant with No Cares. Half-length. Etched by W. Baillie, 1775, as " Le paysan sans souci." 892^. Portrait of a Peasant. Half-length. He is turned three- quarters left, and looks down. His cap is set awry. Engraved in mezzotint by J. de Groot. 892^. Portrait of an Elderly Peasant. Half-length. He looks down to the left. He wears a high cap. Etched by B. de Mare. 892^. Portrait of a Peasant. Half-length. He wears a moustache, and looks down to the right. His flat cap is set awry. Etched by B. de Mare. 893. PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN. Sm. Suppl. 35.- Half-length. She leans her head pensively on her left hand. She sits, turned a little to the left, in front of a vine-clad cottage. She wears a black cap and a black fur-trimmed cloak. To the left, half cut off by the frame, is a window, the lower third of which is boarded up. A good picture. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 10 inches by 8 inches. Formerly in one of the Prussian Royal palaces. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 841 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm., who valued it at j8o). 894. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WITH A CHILD ON HER LAP. The mother is in dark purple ; the child is in white clothes. She sits, turned to the right, and looks at the child. Interesting as a portrait. Signed on the left at foot, and dated 1652 j panel, 28 inches by 24 J inches. In the collection of Cardinal Fesch. In the Bryan collection. In the collection of the New York Historical Society, 1903 catalogue, No. 320. 895. Portrait of an Old Woman. Sm. Suppl. 31. Half-length. She wears a red dress and a white cap, and sits beside a table on which she leans her left elbow. Her hands are folded on her lap. On the table lies a flax- winder. [Pendant to 184.] Panel, 9 inches by 7 inches. Mentioned by Paul Eudel, /' 'Hotel Drouot en 1883, p. 186. Etched by E. Boncourt, in /' ' Art, 1883, vol. i. p. 114. A copy was in the sale: Martineau and others, London, March 10, 1902, No. 22 (jTiS :i8s.). Sale. P. Locquet, Amsterdam, September 22, 1783, No. 273 (300 florins, with pendant, Yver). In the collection of D. van der Schrieck, Louvain, 1842 (Sm.). Sale. Delessert, Paris, March 15, 1869, No. 67 (22,000 francs). In the collection of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Paris.