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5 o6 ISACK VAN OSTADE SECT. him is a boy with a drum. A man and a woman lean on the half-door. Round them are people listening. Panel, 13^ inches by 18 inches. Sale. A. Meynts, Amsterdam, July 15, i8z3, No. 96 (195 florins, Van den Berg). 213. A Fiddler and a Boy. They play outside a cottage. Merry peasants and women. Canvas, 8i inches by 6 inches. Sale. F. Kamermans, Rotterdam, October 3, 1825, No. 40 (145 florins, Lamme). 213*2. The Fiddler. Under a tree outside a cottage sit peasants listening to a fiddler. In the distance are several figures. Panel, 18 inches by 23^ inches. Sale. R. J. Bouricius, Amsterdam, September 18, 1826, No. 84 (12 florins, Thomas). 213^. A Man with a Barrel-Organ. Outside a cottage. The peasant with his household listens, and gives the man a glass of beer. Panel, 13 inches by n inches. Sale. R. J. Bouricius, Amsterdam, September 18, 1826, No. 85 (40 florins, Lenting). 213^. A Wag playing the Rommelpot. Panel, n inches by 8 inches. Sale. Rotterdam, June 9, 1828, No. 35. 213^. A Man grinding a Barrel -Organ. With other figures outside a cottage. Copper, 13^ inches by io inches. Sale. J. Bernard, Amsterdam, November 24, 1834, No. 113 (25 florins, De Lelie). 214. Two Musicians (or, Villagers merrymaking). Sm. Suppl. 37. Outside a cottage numerous peasants listen to two strolling musicians playing a fiddle and a pipe. A merry fellow offers to dance with a child, whose mother stands near them. A man sits on a tub, with his back to the spectator. To his left a peasant leads an unwilling woman by the arm to dance. Panel, 13 inches by 18 inches. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1842 (Sm., who valued it at 160). 214/7. A Strolling Singer. On a bank, with a cottage amid tall trees on the right, an old man has halted. He stands on an upturned tub, singing and selling his ballads. Panel, 14 inches by 12 inches. Sale. Comte R. de Cornelissen, Brussels, May II, 1857, No. 59. A Strolling Musician. Outside the door of a country inn. Peasants sit at table listening.