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286 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. Sale. Julienne, Paris, March 30, 1767. Acquired by the Empress Catherine II. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 946. 472. A PEASANT FAMILY AT HOME (or, Maternal Occupation). Sm. 25, and Suppl. 26. A woman, wearing a grey jacket, blue bodice, and white cap, sits facing right on a chair. She holds a basin of broth in her left hand, and with a pewter spoon in her right feeds a little child seated in an infant's chair. Behind, to the right, stands a little boy of about five with his hands on the back of the chair. At the fireside in the background a peasant wearing a black hat, with his back to the spectator, lights his pipe at a blazing faggot which he has taken from the hearth. In the conventional later style, with the vivid steely blue of the dress and white of the cap. "Excellent" (Sm.). Signed in full on the chimney-piece, and dated 1667; panel, 9 inches by 7^ inches. Mentioned by Descamps. Sale. Julienne, Paris, March 30, 1767 (1001 francs). Acquired by the Empress Catherine II. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 954 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm., who valued it at ^150). 473. A PEASANT FAMILY BY THE FIRESIDE. In the centre of a large room with a timbered roof sits a countrywoman, dressed in red, with a little girl at her knee. The woman turns to the left, where a boy and a little girl are struggling for a saucer of milk. Near the fireside on the right stand three men ; the foremost, seen from the back, has just risen from his chair. At the back a man turns to the open door, through which is seen a green landscape. The picture gives the impression of having been painted later than 1660 ; probably the "o" is a mutilated "8." Almost the same composition as in the etching B. 46, which is of doubtful authenticity. [Pendant to 582 at Schwerin.] Signed in full, and dated 1660 (8 ?) ; panel, 18 inches by 15^ inches. The details and size correspond to those of 478, but the two pictures cannot be identical. In the Stockholm inventory of 1816. In the Stockholm National Museum, 1900 catalogue, No. 550. 474. PEASANTS AT HOME. A poor cottage with a large heap of old lumber in shadow in the right foreground. The light enters at a window in the right background, and falls on a group of two peasants and a woman on the left. The woman, seated facing the spectator, pours out a glass of beer from a jug for a peasant, with a pipe in his mouth, who sits to the left of her, in profile to the right. The other peasant, in profile to the left, stands behind the woman. In the left foreground lie kitchen utensils. Signed in full, and dated 1647 ; panel, 14 inches by 18 inches. Sales. R. Papin, Paris, March 29, 1873. Edouard Kums, Antwerp, May 17, 1898, No. 122 (4000 francs, Colnaghi).