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 i JAN STEEN 131 490. A VILLAGE WEDDING. Sm. Suppl. 50 ; W. 224. A joyous wedding party of about forty persons is divided into two groups. One group is sitting at table ; to the left the others are dancing to the music of a violin and a violoncello. Near the musicians sits a portly woman laughing at a half-drunken man who lies on the floor near an overturned chair. To her left are a boy holding a jug, and another boy with a trumpet. Signed and dated 1671 ; canvas, 27 inches by 34^ inches. Sales. Thomas Hamlet, London, 1834 G8i : i8s.). Clave Bouhaben, Cologne, June 4, 1894 (1900 marks, Lempertz). 4900. A Village Wedding. Panel, 14 inches by 19 inches. Sale. Theobald Theobald and others, London, April 19, 1902, No. 123. 491. THE TWELFTH NIGHT FEAST. In the foreground a peasant wearing a paper crown sits on a cask drinking a glass of wine ; in his right hand he holds a pipe; his stocking has slipped down his leg. Another man, who is laughing, grasps him round the waist. A stout woman, who has a basket on her head, and holds in her left hand a grid- iron, to which she points with a spoon, laughs at the drinker. At the table to the right sits a woman in an arm-chair, half-turned away from the spectators; she has a jug in her hand. Beside her is a man with his hat on one side of his head. From the background to the left comes a woman, holding up a skull on a plate. At the door two peasants, one of whom has a " rommelpot," make a din. Canvas, 9 inches by n^ inches. Sales. Jos. Valette and others, Amsterdam, August 26, 1807, No. 196 (105 florins), but described as on panel. D. van der Schrieck of Louvain, Brussels, April 8, 1861, No. 106. [Not identical with No. 103, described under 456.] Now in the Brussels Museum, Wauters' catalogue of 1900, No. 446. 492. THE TWELFTH NIGHT FEAST. Sm. Suppl. 78 ; W. 92. A company of nineteen persons are assembled round a table. To the right is the "king," leaning back in his chair and emptying his glass; his paper crown has fallen off. One man plays the " rommelpot," another blows the horn, a third has a pair of bellows, a fourth carries the star. In the foreground are a boy with a cat and a lantern, and a man with a string of egg-shells. In the centre stands the hostess holding a bowl and a jug; to the left sits a woman with a paper in her right hand. " A free and spirited production " (Sm.). Signed; panel, nj inches by 16 inches. Exhibited in Brussels, 1882, No. 234. In the collection of Charles Brind, London, 1842 (Sm.). Now in the collection of Counts E. and V. Bloudoff, St. Petersburg. 493. The Twelfth Night Feast. Signed; canvas, 31 inches by 43 inches. Exhibited in Brussels, 1882, No. 229. In the collection of E. Brugman, Brussels.