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ISAAK VAN OSTADE (1621-169) THE HALT AT THE INN Panel, 24 1/2 inches by 20 1/4 inches

Travellers Halting at the Inn. "The Inn is on the right. Steps lead up to a balcony. Here a woman stands looking down on a company of peasants who sit drinking. A flute player, seen from the back and turned half-left, leans against the steps; a dog to the left barks at him. To the left of the house is a large tree. To the left of the drinkers is a high two-wheeled tilt-cart with a gray horse, which is a feeding at a trough, On the left, near the cart, are two men; a rider approaches from the left, where is a view of the distance, with a windmill and a house with a tower. A good and well-preserved picture in a warm brown tone."- Quoted from De Groot Signed at the lower right, "Isaac Ostade." Illustrated in the Burlington Magazine, October, 1907, and mentioned in the accompanying article by C. J. Holmes. Illustrated in the Leuchtenberg Catalogue, No. 154. Mentioned in C. Hofstede de Groot's Catalogue of Dutch Painters, Vol. III, p. 447, No. 25. Previously owned by Duke George of Leuchtenberg, Petrograd. Exhiited Old Master Exhibition, M. Knoedler & Co, 1912. Etched by H. Adam in Muxel's "Leuchtenberg Gallery." In the Leuchtenberg Gallery, Munich, 1837. 152. In the Leuchtenberg Gallery, Petrograd. De Groot suggests that this was possibly the canvas sold by Randon de Boisset in Paris, Feb. 3, 1777, for 3, 645 francs, and by Calonne, Paris April 21, 1788, for 3,000 francs. 11 GS