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 478 ISACK VAN OSTADE SECT. 135*. A Smith shoeing a Horse. Near him are men selling mussels, and others. Panel, 2o| inches by 26^ inches. Sale. N. Albrechts and others, Amsterdam, May 1 1, 1772, No. 104 (3 florins 5). 135^. A Smithy; Interior. A smith is at work. Panel, 7^ inches by 7! inches. Sale. A. Baron van Harinxma thoe Slooten, Amsterdam, September 9, 1839, No. 62 (5 florins 75, Harinxma). i35/>. A Smithy at the Roadside. 8 inches by loj inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1876, No. 79. Then in the collection of Miss Sace, London. 135^. A Chimney-Sweeper in a Landscape. Panel, 6 inches by 5 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, June 13, 1809, No. 121. 136. THE WOMAN WINDING YARN. Sm. 21. In a courtyard in the centre foreground sits a woman with a yarn-winder to the left of her, and a dog at her side. She converses with a man who stands to the right, and is seen half from the back and half in profile. Behind them is the large open door of a thatched stable overgrown with vine, in which a man is grooming a horse. By the right door-post lies a pig. To the left of the door are bushes, and behind them a gable roof. Signed " Ostade P." ; canvas, 17^ inches by 14 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 112. Engraved by Daudet in the Le Brun Gallery. Sales. Chevalier Lambert et Du Porail, Paris, March 27, 1787 (4000 francs, Le Brun). Calonne, Paris, April 21, 1788 (3600 francs). Destouches, Paris, March 21, 1794. Paris, March 22, 1845, No. 28. Marquise de Rodes, Paris, May 30, 1868 (Brussels Museum). In the Brussels Museum, 1906 catalogue, No. 343. 137. A Country Inn with Adjacent Houses. Sm. 4. A woman sits spinning. Two men, one of whom is seated, a horseman, a woman leading a child, and other figures are distributed about the picture. Canvas, 38 inches by 49 inches. Sales. Comte Dubarry, Paris, November 21, 1774 (2310 francs). Randon de Boisset, Paris, February 3, 1777, No. 119 (3605 francs). Boeuf, Paris, 1782 (1200 francs, Le Brun). 137*7. Interior with a Woman spinning. Other figures and accessories. Panel, i6| inches by 2i| inches. Sale. L. H. de Haze Bomme, Middelburg, December 15, 1803, No. 19. 137^. The Woman weaving. In a rustic barn sits a woman