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5 o8 ISACK VAN OSTADE SECT. Round the house are tangled bushes ; near it is a road going away into the distance. Signed in full ; panel, i8| inches by 24! inches. Sale. Clave-Bouhaben, Cologne, June 4, 1894, No. 281. 2i6/. Merry Peasants outside a Cottage. One sings j another plays the fiddle. To the right is a view of a landscape. 23! inches by 27^ inches. Sale. Allershoff and others, Rotterdam, April 1 3, 1 896, No. 44. 217. THE BALLAD-SINGERS. At the back is a village stretching from the left foreground to the right background, with houses, trees, and a tall church-tower. In the left foreground, on a bank, stand a man and a woman singing from music-books. The man looks at the spectators. In a half-circle to the right stand the villagers. Some hold books and seem to join in the song. In the left foreground are two children, seen from the back, with a dog. To the right of them are three other children ; one of them, facing the spectator, reads a paper. Grey sky. Moonlight. Signed in full on the left at foot ; panel, 12 inches by 9 inches. Sales. Koucheloff-Besborodko of St. Petersburg, Paris, June 5, 1869, No. 25 (4900 francs). M. Neven, Cologne, March 17, 1879, No. 167. Foucart, Valenciennes, October 12, 1898, No. 140. 2170. Boys singing. Outside a farmhouse on the right of a road leading to the left. Men and women listen. Panel, 12^ inches by 18 inches. Sale. Rath and others, Cologne, October 14, 1901, No. 201. 217^. Village Musicians. Canvas, 27^ inches by 23^ inches. Sale. Brussels, May 5, 1906, No. 83. 217^. A Bagpiper. He stands with a little dog, outside a cottage, surrounded by listeners. A wooden flight of steps leads to the upper storey. Canvas on panel, 12 inches by 10 inches. Sale. Baron L. von Loewenstein and others, Frankfort-on-Main, December 5, 1907, No. 52. 218. A STROLLING FIDDLER. Outside a cottage, with listeners. Signed ; panel, 13! inches by i8| inches. In the Hoogendijk collection, The Hague, No. 79. Sale. Hoogendijk of The Hague and others, Amsterdam, April 28, 1908, No. 100. 219. A Rustic Merrymaking. In the centre of the middle distance is an inn with a high-pitched gable. Two persons look out at the open half-door. A man at a window to the right holds out a jug and shouts.