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 i JAN STEEN 153 587. A Domestic Scene. In a spacious room, men, women, and children sit round a table with a green cloth, smoking and drinking ; among them are a young mother hushing her infant to sleep, and the father smoking at the hearth to the right. Signed in full ; canvas on wood, 21 inches by 27 inches. Saks. Von Robert and others, Cologne, March 27, 1893, No. 296. Bokelman and others, Cologne, December 19, 1894, No. 363. 587,2. An Interior with Rustics. Sale. London, April 3, 1901, No. 154. 587^. An Interior with Figures. Panel, 16 inches by 14 inches. Salt. Thomas Maclean, London, November 16, 1901, No. 136. 587*:. A Rustic Family at Table. 25 inches by 31 inches. Sales. London, February 24, 1902, No. 63. London, March 14, 1903, No. 46. 587^. Peasants at Table. A man enters at the open door. 31 inches by 25 inches. Sale. London, March 14, 1903, No. 112. 587*. A Merry Company. 33 inches by 42 inches. Sale. Lady Wetherall and others, London, April 18, 1903, No. 62. 588. Rustics at Table. A woman and three men sit eating at a table covered with a white cloth. Near them is a window looking on the street. In the left foreground is a butter-tub ; in front of the table is a dog gnawing a bone. Signed in full on the butter-tub, and dated 1660, but of doubtful authenticity, to judge from the illustration in the sale catalogue ; panel, 32 inches by 32 inches. Sale. A. van der Flinck, Brussels, November 25, 1904, No. 95. 589. A Merry Company. There are six persons smoking, drinking, and playing music. To the right a peasant embraces a young woman ; to the left is a man smoking, with a dog. Signed ; canvas, 41 J inches by 52^ inches. Sale. Prince S. Koudacheff of St. Petersburg, and others, Berlin, February 14, 1905, No. 62. 590. A Tavern Scene. A young girl, in a yellow skirt and red jacket, with her apron tucked up and a jug under her right arm, receives from a middle-class couple, who are leaving the tavern, the money for their bill. In the background to the left near a window two men are playing backgammon at a table. One of them raises his hat and scratches his head. Two other men stand at the hearth ; one smokes a pipe, the other gives advice to the perplexed player. From the ceiling