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 166 JAN STEEN SECT. 634. A Country Fair. W. 283. 8 inches by 9^ inches. Described by Descamps. Sales. Grave van Wassenaer Obdam, The Hague, August 19, 1750 (Hoet, ii. 302), No. 71 (6 1 florins). (Possibly) Meffre the elder, Paris, 1845 (see 644*7) ; De Beurnonville, Paris, 1 88 1 (see 649) ; W. Baines, London, 1902 (see 656). 634*7. A Country Fair. W. 285. A very good little picture. Sale. Amsterdam, April 2, 1754 (Terw. 84), No. 24 (25 florins). 634^. A Merry Company in the Open Air. W. 320. A man plays a barrel-organ. 1 6 inches by 13! inches. Sale. Amsterdam, May n, 1756 (Terw. 138), No. 25 (29 florins). 634^ A Merry Company in the Open Air. W. 321. A man plays a barrel-organ. Sale. Amsterdam, May n, 1756 (Terw. 138), No. 26 (26 florins). 634^. Gipsies and Peasants in a Landscape. 2O inches by 19^ inches. Sale. Leyden, June I, 1765, No. 29 (28 florins 10). 635. A Fine Landscape with Peasants at Table. W. 452. A waggon with horses and other accessories. 41 1 inches by 60 inches. Sale. J. van Zaanen, The Hague, November 16, 1767, No. 19 (24 florins 10). 636. A Country Fair. W. 288. There are numerous figures, including a quack doctor and singers. It is sketchy in style. Panel, 22 inches by 26 inches. Sale. J. van der Marck, Amsterdam, August 25, 1773, No. 309 (62 florins, Damme). 637. A Country Fair, with many Figures. Canvas, 38 inches by 44 inches. Sale. P. Bout, The Hague, April 20, 1779, No. 8 (47 florins). 638. A Village Fair. W. 287. Panel, 26 inches by 17! inches. Sale. Leyden, November 4, 1783. 639. A Village Merrymaking. Sm. 28 ; W. 279. It is a com- position of about twenty-eight figures. Amongst the various groups are a man and woman dancing, near the door of an inn, to the music of a bagpiper. A burgomaster behind them drinks a glass of beer. Near them a man embraces a woman ; her husband laughs and pulls her by her apron. A man with a bird in a cage stands near. In the middle an old woman,