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 1 62 JAN STEEN SECT. 619. A Rustic Feast. With a fiddler and peasants dancing. 40 inches by 57 inches. Sale. De Falbe, London, May 19, 1900, No. 130. 620. A Rustic Merrymaking. Panel, 13 inches by io| inches. Sale. London, July 9, 1901, No. 355. 62oa. Interior with Peasants seated at a Repast i6 inches by 21 inches. Sale. "The property of a lady," at Christie's, London, February 23, 1907, No. 77 (693, Huggins). 621. A RUSTIC FEAST (or, View of a Dutch Village during some Public Holiday). Sm. 2 ; W. 277. On the right a company of persons, who have just left the tavern, are departing in a boat. The jovial host stands on the bank of the river with cap in hand and bids them farewell. On the other side are a number of peasants ; among them is a man on horseback drinking a parting glass. Near them are a church and a village. " This is a free and masterly production " (Sm.). Panel, 17 inches by 26 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1878, No. 59. Sales. Paris, 1774 (75 francs). Erard, Paris, 1831, No. 140 (1880 francs). In the collection of W. H. Grenfell, London. In the possession of the dealers Dowdeswell and Dowdeswells, London, 1904. Now in the Walter collection, Bearwood. 622. A RUSTIC FAIR IN THE OPEN. To the left of an open place in front of a group of houses built on a wall, to which a flight of steps leads up, is a table at which peasants are eating and drinking ; one of them clinks glasses with a woman who sits opposite to him. To the right of the table sits a man with a woman on his knee ; in front of them is a woman who carries a child on her back and reads a paper. In the centre of the picture two couples are dancing a round dance to the music of a fiddler. In front of them is a stout peasant who holds a tankard in his right hand ; he is intoxicated j his wife grasps him by the arm. Two boys play on the ground in front. On the steps a man converses with a woman. To the right is a hilly landscape, with cottages among trees. To the left there are high trees on the wall and the round tower adjoin- ing it. The picture is painted in the style of the picture belonging to Dr Bredius and exhibited at the Mauritshuis (624). Signed in full in the left-hand bottom corner; canvas, 2i inches by 25^ inches. Now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1898 catalogue, iii. No. 73. 623. A MERRY COMPANY IN THE OPEN AIR. Sm. Suppl. 35 ; W. 302. About twenty peasants are assembled in front of a picturesque tavern. Five sit at table under a vine-clad arbour on the left.