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 xi ISACK VAN OSTADE 439 liking for a yellow tone ; his figures are more like bandits and take up more space in the composition. There is a still greater distance between the master and PIETER QUAST (1606-1647), EGBERT HEEMSKERK (1634-1704), and H. BOGAERT, who lived in the first half of the seventeenth century. Only an unpractised eye can mistake their work for that of Isack. Some fine coast-scenes and winter landscapes by EGBERT VAN DER POEL (1621-1664) have, through the alteration of the signature, long passed as the work of Isack van Ostade, but can easily be distinguished from his pictures. If chance had not preserved in the Brussels Museum (No. 358) a signed "Interior of a Stable," dated 1639, by HENDRIK POTUIJL, who worked in the middle of the seventeenth century, his pictures of such subjects would be attributed more frequently than they are to Isack van Ostade. Thus, his picture in the Munich Pinakothek was until lately catalogued as by Adriaen van Ostade. ABRAHAM VAN HOEF or VAN DER HOEVEN, the mid-seventeenth century painter of cavalry skirmishes who was one of the imitators of Palamedes Palamedesz and Jan Martsen de Jonge, painted some pictures with a grey horse at a trough outside an inn which look remarkably like the pictures of this subject by Isack van Ostade. Some pictures by THOMAS WIJCK (1616-1677), in which he paints Dutch themes instead of his customary Italian subjects, have been regarded even by the most experienced critics as the work of Isack. Lastly must be mentioned the names of JOHANNES OUDENROGGE (1622-1653) and W. DE HEER, who -worked in the middle of the seventeenth century. Both are little-known painters of moderate talent, but some of their pictures remind one more or less of the works of Isack van Ostade. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE In the references added to the entries in the Catalogue " Sm." = Smith, "Catalogue Raisonne," vol. i. (1829). " Sm. Suppl." = Smith, " Catalogue Raisonne," Supplement (1842). A CLASSIFIED SUMMARY OF THE CONTENTS I. ALLEGORIES, l-6. II. GENRE-PIECES, 7-3 38^. A. Scenes with travellers, 7-117. 1. Halting at an inn, 7- 104*2. (a) In summer, 7-79. In winter, 80-99. (c) Undefined, 100-1040. 2. Starting from an inn, 105. 3. Resting on the road, io6-H2<7. 4. Pedlars and beggars, ^b-^g. 5. Various scenes, 113-116. 6. Undescribed, 117.