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158 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. 10 inches by 8| inches. Sale. Bateman, London, April n, 1896, No. 123. 55. A Woman with a Jug at an Open Window. She wears a black hat, shaped like a mushroom, over a white cap. The window is overgrown with vine. If genuine, this is only of slight importance. It is wrongly catalogued as "after I. van Ostade. ' Signed in full, but the signature is doubtful ; 10 inches by 9 inches. In the Douai Museum, 1869 catalogue, No. 284. 56. A PEASANT WOMAN WITH A CHILD IN HER ARMS AT THE DOOR. Sm. 66 ; Suppl. 33. At the closed half- door of a cottage stands a mother holding up her child in her arms to let it look over. To the left is a window ; above is a vine. To the right a broom-handle is placed against a fence, over which hangs a cloth. An " excellent picture " (Sm.). Signed in full, and dated 1667 ; panel, 13! inches by io inches. Mentioned by Descamps ; by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, i. 379-80 ; ii. 161, 243 ; by W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, ii. 331 ; and by Waagen, ii. 107. Engraved by B. A. Dunker in the Choiseul Gallery. A tapestry was made after the picture at the Gobelins by Cozette, measuring 42 inches by 32 inches, and sold at the sale : Marquis de Menars, Paris, February 1782, No. 68 (noo francs, Prince Louis) see Ch. Blanc, ii. 50-51. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1890, No. 78. Sales. Marquis de Voyer, 1754. Prince de Conti, Paris, April 8, 1777 (7251 francs, Paillet, for Choiseul-Praslin). Choiseul-Praslin, Paris, February 18, 1793 (7950 francs, De Praslin). Choiseul-Praslin, Paris, May 9, 1808 (4990 francs). De Sereville, Paris, January 21, 1812 (5020 francs). Dufresne, Paris, March 16, 1816 (12,000 francs). Talleyrand, Paris, July 7, 1817 ; the collection was bought as a whole by the dealer W. Buchanan, who sold this picture to Edward Gray. In the collection of Edward Gray, London, 1829 (Sm., who says that it was then valued at .525, but "would probably sell much higher"). In the collection of Lord Ashburton, The Grange, 1 842 (Sm.) ; sold as- a whole to the London dealers T. Agnew and Sons, August 1907. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the collection of Fritz Gans, Frankfort-on-Main. 57. A WOMAN SPINNING AT AN OPEN DOOR. Sm. 247 ; Suppl. 132. An old woman, in a blue jacket with a white cap, stands at a door, the lower half of which is closed. She holds a flax-winder in her right hand. A "vigorous but early production " (Sm.). [Pendant to 39-] Signed in full ; panel, 1 1 inches by 8 inches. Mentioned by Waagen, Suppl. 163. Said in the Amsterdam sale catalogue of 1739 to have been etched by A. van Ostade, but Bartsch mentions no such etching.