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148 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. quarter view to the right, stands drinking from a mug. An equally stout woman sits to the right in front of a rude table, resting her left hand on her hip, and holding a knife in her right, and looks at the drinker. Behind her are two other men, one of whom is busy with the food on the table. In the right centre foreground sits a drunken man who is vomiting. Farther right a stout woman, seated on a little chair, stirs a large pot hanging over the fire. Behind her a man offers drink to a woman. Farther back a man greets another who enters at the door, which is rather high up. An early picture, dating from about 1635-40, in the usual pink, light-grey, and blue tones. [Pendant to 8. Compare 236.] Panel, 16 inches by 23 inches. In the Esterhazy collection, Vienna. In the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1906 catalogue, No. 486 (old No. 281). 8. Smell. In the centre sits a country-woman, putting clean clothes on her infant. Near the window to the left two boys, who are eating, hold their noses, as does a woman who stands behind them. The father, standing to the right, takes little notice. Rather coarsely painted. If genuine it is an early work, but this is uncertain. [Pendant to 7. Com- pare 237.] Panel, 13 inches by 17^ inches. Engraved by A. J. Prenner. A copy was in the sale : Hoogendijk of The Hague, Amsterdam, April 28, 1908, No. 275 ; another copy is in the P. Delaroff collection, St. Petersburg. Copies of the whole series of "The Five Senses " are in the Vienna Academy, 1900 catalogue, Nos. 902-906. In the Esterhazy collection, Vienna. In the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1906 catalogue, No. 489 (old No. 291). 8<7. Sight. A woman cleaning the head of a peasant who rests it on her lap ; he has his back to the spectator. Near them is a man with a jug. Farther back a woman sits on the ground unfastening her bodice. In front of her to the right is a boy. [Compare 375.] Described from a copy on panel, 9^ inches by 13^ inches in the Vienna Academy, No. 902. The original is lost. Other copies are in the Prado, Madrid, 1907 catalogue, No. 1515 under the name of Isack van Ostade and in the Hollander collection, Berlin. Two more copies were in the Sales. Countess Reigersberg, Cologne, October 15, 1890, No. in on panel, 9^ inches by 13^ inches, signed on the panelling to the right. T. Hermesdorff and others, Munich, December 14, 1905, No. 155 on panel, 10 inches by 14 inches, signed. There is another version of the composition. In this the first peasant faces the spectator, and, instead of the woman and boy behind, there is only a child at a chest. This composition is preserved in the etching (B. 35) attributed to Ostade but not by him, and in the copy etched in