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 i JAN STEEN 157 Now in the collection of the Duke of Wellington, Apsley House, London, 1901 catalogue, No. 64. [The picture of the sales E. van Dishoek, The Hague, June 9, 1745, No. 19 (200 florins), and W. Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763, No. 247 (630 florins, Diodati) canvas, 41 inches by 48 inches has been wrongly identified (Sm.) with the above ; see 95.] 601. A GREAT RUSTIC FEAST IN A TAVERN. Sm. 165 ; W. 147. In the left foreground a man, holding a jug in one hand and a tall glass in the other, sits on the ground near a bench upon which lies a man smoking a pipe. Behind them are a child beating a drum and a woman singing from a sheet of music in her hand. Near them are a fiddler seated and a woman who stands and plays the bagpipes. On the right a trumpeter, with his back to the spectator, sits at a long table ; he holds a tankard in his right hand and waves his hat with his left. An old man with a basket of shrimps stands at the table drinking wine. At the table sit numerous other jovial guests ; on the right is a woman with a child at her breast ; a man holding a tankard has mounted the table. Several persons stand at the open door. Some peasants dance in the centre of the room. On the left a man kisses a girl who is about to ascend a staircase, while an old man desires her to accompany him and grasps her hand and her apron. High up on the left is a balcony with spectators ; on it is fastened the coat of arms of Charles V. On the back wall hangs a picture of the Four Sons of Aymon ; near it are a picture of a prince riding on a grey horse, and a full-length portrait of Kenau Hasselaar. It is a good work, with fine details, although somewhat superficial in execu- tion. The whole impression conveyed is very fine, and reminds one of the "Marriage at Cana" in the Arenberg collection, Brussels (46). Dated on the left 1674, though the catalogue states that the date is almost illegible ; canvas, 47 inches by 64 inches. Described by Nagler, Waagen, Ch. Blanc, Viardot. Sales. J. van der Marck, Amsterdam, August 8, 1773, No. 495 (1275 florins, Yver). Greenwood, London, 1774 (^H 1 : z 5 s -> Sanford). Now in the Louvre, 1900 catalogue, No. 2578 ; it was in the Louvre in 1833 (Sm.). 602. A Company in an Interior. W. 194. There are nine persons. The most prominent is a young woman, with a child on her lap, who sits beside a table covered with a handsome cloth, upon which is a coffee-pot. Behind her a man with a merry face stretches out two fingers and appears to be making jokes. To the right a man sits beside the hearth ; near him is a cavalier with a glass in one hand and his hat in the other. An old woman offers a pipe to a man j another man enters at the door and looks towards a pair of lovers seated in shadow. There is a red velvet cushion on an arm-chair, over the back of which hangs a blue silk coat. On the wall hangs a violin ; from the ceiling is suspended a bill. On the chimney-piece are a stag's antlers and a shell. Panel, 15 inches by 12 inches.