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234 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. 307. A Man and Woman in a Great Barn. The interior contains various utensils. In the remote background a woman sits at a fire over which hangs a pot. A man stands to the right of her, bending forward and conversing. Described from an engraving by Jacques Louys. 3070. A Man and Woman drinking. Engraved in mezzotint by B. Velthuysen. 308. The Old Man in love. On the left is a young woman almost facing the spectator ; she holds a jug in her right hand and a glass in her left. She jumps up from her chair and looks round with a smile at an old man, who lays his right hand on her right shoulder and with his other hand touches her breast. He has risen a little from his arm-chair. On the right the table is partly visible ; on it are a charcoal pan, a pipe, and a goblet. On the left, behind the woman, is part of a boarded partition, with a hat hanging on the corner of it and a clay pipe. In the right background, on the wall, is a paper with two lines of writing. Described from a mezzotint by W. Vincent (Wessely, 440). 309. THE PROPOSAL AT THE HOUSE-DOOR. Sm. 30, and Suppl. 15. Half-length. A woman with a white cap leans over the half-door of a house, resting her head on her right arm and listening to the words of a peasant who stands in profile to the left in front of the door. The man has raised his left hand and appears to be making a proposal of marriage. He wears a plumed felt hat with a narrow brim. A vine grows over the arch of the doorway. Very good in colour and expression, but the figures are perhaps somewhat too large for Ostade. According to Waagen, the woman's left hand and the man's right have been retouched. Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1667 ; panel, 17^ inches by 15^ inches. Engraved by Fittler in the Stafford Gallery, No. 54. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 134 ; and by Waagen, ii. 46. Sales. Gerard Braamcamp, Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, No. 152 (1760 florins, P. Fouquet). Prince de Conti, Paris, April 8, 1777 (4801 francs). Due de Chabot, Paris, December 17, 1787, No. 27 (4222 francs). Le Brun, Paris, 1791 (3601 francs, Falconet). Helsleuter (Van Eyl Sluyter ?), Paris, January 25, 1802 (7000 francs). In the collection of the Marquis of Stafford, 1829 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Francis Egerton, 1842 (Sm., who valued it at 5)- In the collection of the Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, London, 1892 catalogue, No. 203. 310. A WOMAN AND A PEASANT CONVERSING AT A DOOR. Sm. 190, and Suppl. 89. Half-length. A woman, wearing a red jacket and a white cap, leans over the half-door of a house. A peasant in a dark costume, holding his hat in his right hand, stands in front,