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 i JAN STEEN 99 In the collection of Colonel Everett, London, 1886. In the possession of the dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, Paris, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 196. In the collection of the late Charles T. Yerkes, New York. 373. The Mid-day Rest. W. 472. A lady and gentleman, seated at a stone table on the terrace before their house, have fallen asleep. On the table are some nut-shells, a bottle, and a closed book. Behind the pair is a small fountain with a Cupid carrying a wild boar on his head ; farther back is a trellis enclosing a garden with lofty trees. The lady wears a red velvet jacket trimmed with fur and a skirt of shot silk. She has on her head a lace kerchief, which falls down over her right shoulder. Her right arm rests on a blue velvet cushion. The gentleman has crossed his arms on his breast, and leans back against a vine-clad wall. He wears a broad-brimmed hat, long curls, a grey coat, red breeches, and white stockings. Copper, 7 inches by 9 inches. Sale. Cardinal Fesch, Rome, March 17, 1845, No. 227 (5500 florins). 374. GRACE BEFORE MEAT. Sm. Suppl. 90 ; W. 135.- Six figures in an interior. The mother shows a little child how to fold its hands. The boy on the other side of her laughs during the grace j the father, sitting to the right, gives him a stern look. On the left the maid- servant brings a dish of food to table. In the foreground is the elder daughter, with her back to the spectator. On a chandelier, in the centre of which hangs a bell, are the words, " Ons dagelyck brood " ("Our daily bread"). Over the fireplace to the right is a paper inscribed with eight lines from the " Proverbs." A good picture, but not so attractive as the picture in the Morrison collection (375). Signed "J. Steen" (J. and S. connected) below the text from "Pro- verbs " ; canvas, 39 inches by 33^ inches. Described by Waagen (iii. 397). Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1889, No. 69, and 1902, No. 137. Now in the collection of the Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, No. 13. 375. GRACE BEFORE MEAT. Sm. 185 ; W. 380. A woman, dressed in a grey jacket and white cap, with a child on her lap, sits at table in the corner of a room. On the table are bread and cheese ; a ham is placed on a tub beside it. Opposite the woman sits a man who, with his hat before his face, offers up a prayer. To the left, through a window behind the woman, is a view of a landscape. From the ceiling hangs a bill in a frame inscribed, "Uw wille moet geschieden " ("Thy will be done"). On a sheet of paper affixed to the wall is a stanza, versified from Proverbs xxx. 8 : " Drie dingen wensch ick en niet meer. Voor al te minnen Godt den heer, Geen overvloet van Rijckdoms schat, Maar wens om tgeen de wijste badt Een eerlyck leven op dit dal In deze drie bestaet het al."