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 xi ISACK VAN OSTADE 449 Sale. Baron K5nigswarter of Vienna, Berlin, November 20, 1906, No. 59 (32,000 mark, Kleinberger). In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. 30. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. Sm. 63, and Suppl. 33. The thatched inn, amid trees, is on a bank to the left. A man seated in front drinks and converses with a man standing. Outside the inn is a four-wheeled waggon drawn by a bay horse and a grey horse which feed at a trough. A woman and a man in the waggon converse with the innkeeper. A child with a dog looks on. On the road to the right a woman carries two pails of water on a yoke ; she has a little boy with her. To the right is a high hill with bushes. A fine afternoon. " An excellent example of the master" (Sm.). Panel, 35 inches by 32 inches. In the Van Loon collection, Amsterdam, 1829-42 (Sm.) ; the collection as a whole was bought by the Rothschilds in 1878. In the collection of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Paris. 31. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. Fourteen figures. The inn is at one side ; in the centre are three oaks. At the inn door a little boy gets some oats for one of the horses which a peasant has just unharnessed from a waggon. The travellers sit on a bench, con- versing with a man in a fur cap. In front a child lets a dog drink from a little pail. Behind, a woman with a basket stands listening to two men who have sat down. On the road is a waggon loaded with bales. [Possibly identical with 63.] Panel, 29 inches by 36^ inches. In the collection of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Paris. 32. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. Two horse- men the elder in military costume on a grey horse, the younger on a bay horse halt on a bank overgrown with trees and bushes in front of a cottage. They converse with a peasant. To the left is a stream with a stone bridge, over which a shepherd passes with his sheep. At the foot of the bridge a man drinks ; only his head is seen. Signed j panel, 24^ inches by 19^ inches. In the collection of Baron d'Aubigny, Paris. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the collection of Adolphe Schloss, Paris, since January 1900. 33. TRAVELLERS HALTING AT AN INN. On the left is a road coming up from a valley. In the right middle distance is a village inn. To the left of it are a large tree and a well ; in front of it and to the right a woman washes pots under a vine-trellis. To the left, outside the inn, are three men. One sits, holding in his right hand an earthenware jug. Another to the right behind him leans on a trough, and holds a pipe. The third man stands before him, with his hands behind his back. All three look at a beggar-woman who asks an alms ; she carries a child on her back. To the left stands a four-wheeled waggon with two horses, one of them a grey. A man shakes fodder into a trough before the horses. A lady in black sits in the waggon ; a cavalier descends VOL. Ill 2 G