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x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 235 offering her a piece of gingerbread. A vine grows on the wall. In the dark background is the head of a laughing man. Panel, n inches by 10 inches. Mentioned by Waagen, ii. 119. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1881, No. 128, and 1908, No. 70. In the collection of Henry Thomas Hope, London, 1829-42 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, Deepdene ; bought as a whole in 1898 by the London dealers P. and D. Colnaghi and A. Wertheimer. In the collection of L. Neumann, London. 311. RUSTIC LOVERS AT A DOOR. The woman, in a red jacket and white cap, leans over the half-door. The man embraces her from behind. Above the door is a vine-clad roof. Panel, 26 inches by 21 inches. In the collection of Sir F. Cook, Bart., Richmond, No. 145. 311*. A Woman eating a Herring and conversing with her Neighbour. 16^ inches by 13 inches. The subject appears to be the same as that of the picture, No. 1821, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. This is catalogued as an original by A. van Ostade, but is unquestionably a copy, most probably after the water-colour in the Musee Conde at Chantilly, with which it agrees save in a few trifling details. The water-colour was etched in reverse by Ostade himself (B. 26). The chief difference between the Amsterdam picture on the one hand and the water- colour and etching on the other is that in the picture the woman holds a knife and a herring, while in the drawing and print she has a spool and distaff. Sale. Seger Tierens, The Hague, July 23, 1743 (Hoet, ii. 109), No. 171 (76 florins). 312. The Proposal at the House- Door. A woman leans over the half-door of a vine-clad house. A man, hat in hand, offers her a gauffre. Another person looks on. [Possibly identical with 3120.] Panel, u inches by 10^ inches. Sale. Soeterwoude, June 15, 1779, No. ii (64 florins, Heinck). 3120. A Rustic Couple at a Door. A peasant offers a cake to a woman leaning over the half-door of a house. [Possibly identical with 312.] Panel, 12 inches by ii inches. Sale. H. ten Kate, Amsterdam, June 10, 1801, No. 131 (50 florins, Gruyter). 313. A Woman conversing with a Man in front of a House. Sm. Suppl. 47. In front of a house overgrown with vine a woman in a blue bodice and white apron sits on the doorstep. She has just left off peeling apples to speak to a man who stands before her with his back to the spectator. He wears a red cap, and carries a purse on his girdle. On the other side a boy with a hoop is near a dustbin. Panel, 14 inches by n inches.