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x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 171 seen in lost profile to the right, sits at his easel painting a landscape. He wears a purple dress and a red cap. Behind him to the right are two pupils. The younger, a boy, stands at a table grinding colour on a stone. The elder, a man, behind him to the left, is preparing a palette of colours. Some drawings lie on a cask in front of him. A dog is asleep in the fore- ground. At the back is a wooden staircase. " This picture is painted in a free manner and at an advanced period of his life " (Sm.). [Compare 98.] Signed on a table to the left with an unusual monogram, " A.O " ; panel, 14! inches by 14 inches. A replica, with slight variations, is in the Dresden Gallery, 1906 catalogue, No. 1397 (see 98). There is an etching of similar subject by Ostade (B. 32), done about 1650. Engraved by J. B. Tetar van Elven. Sale. Van der Pot, Rotterdam, June 6, 1808, No. 96 (600 florins, Van Lennep for the Amsterdam Museum). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 1813. 98. A PAINTER IN HIS STUDIO. Sm. 211. In a homely studio, into which the sunlight streams through a window on the left, a painter, seen partly in a back view, sits painting at his easel. To the right, near a staircase at the back leading to an upper room which is less well lighted, is a lay-figure. Above, at the back, is a table at which a figure is dimly seen grinding colour. Sm. regards this as one of Ostade's best works. Replica of 97. Signed in full on the right at foot, and dated 1663 ; panel, 15 inches by 14 inches. Mentioned by Descamps. Lithographed by Akeman Allesson ; engraved by A. Carse. In the Crozat collection. In the La Bouexiere collection, Paris, from which it was acquired, with No. 1396 of the Dresden catalogue, by Le Leu in 1754 for Dresden. Sm. confuses this with 100, in which there are two boys grinding colours. In the Dresden Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1397 (Sm. valued it in 1829 at about $2$). 99. A PAINTER IN HIS STUDIO. He sits in the left centre foreground at his easel, painting a picture of a dead bullock. On a bench at his side is a box ; an open sketch-book is placed against it. In the right background a winding staircase leads to an upper room. In the corner under the stairs two pupils are preparing colours on a table. Above it on a shelf are bottles, a plaster female figure, and a bust. On the left is a large window. A basket hangs from the ceiling. On the back wall to the right hangs a framed picture ; on the floor lie sketches. The picture corresponds in detail to Ostade's etching (B. 32). [Probably identical with 100. Compare 97, 98.] Tall and narrow. In the collection of John G. Johnson, Philadelphia. 99*. A Painter seated at his Easel. He is painting a portrait. At the back a youth is grinding colour. Beside him a man is cleaning a palette.