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 174 JAN STEEN SECT. a woman looks on with a smile. On the table are a ham, a loaf, and other things. The peasants have apparently been on a journey ; their sticks and knapsacks lie on the floor. Signed in full in the right-hand bottom corner j panel, 15 inches by 12 inches. [Compare 679^] Exhibited in Leipzig, 1889, No. 233. Now in the collection of Rudolf Brockhaus, Leipzig. 664^7. THE BROKEN EGGS. A young woman standing in the centre has let fall some eggs. A laughing man, seated near her, pulls at her apron. On the right sits a man with a pipe in his hand. Behind him is an old man with a tankard ; in the left background is a boy. There is a fine view of the open air beyond. Signed in full on the right ; canvas, 18 inches by 15^ inches. Formerly in the Boursault collection. Sales, Edmund Higginson, London, 1846 (178, bought in); and 1860 (157 :iis., W. King). Bond, London, 1874 (105, Lord Powerscourt). Lord Powerscourt, London, 1878 (102 : 1 8s., bought in). In the collection of the late Alfred Beit, London. 665. A SMOKER. A man in a brown jacket and a red cap sits at a table, rilling his pipe. On the table is a knife. The figure is a half-length. Canvas, 8| inches by 7 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1888, No. 89. Now in the collection of C. T. D. Crews, London. 666. A TAVERN SCENE. On the right a man is eating eggs. On the left is a woman in red. Farther back a man pours wine out of a pewter pot. It is a good picture. In the possession of Sir George Donaldson, London. 667. The Cottage Door. In the foreground a man converses with a girl in red. At the open door of the cottage an old man is giving food to two chickens ; another man in the background looks on amazed. Signed in full ; panel, 22 inches by 18 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1884, No. 103. In the collection of Viscount Hampden, London. 668. THE TIRED TRAVELLER. Sm. 112 and Suppl. 107; W. 117. In front of a country inn a traveller sits on a barrel under the cool shade of a vine trellis. On the table before him is a freshly gathered rose, apparently intended for the pretty girl who brings him a glass of wine. The man regards her so intently that he leaves the wine untouched. " This matchless jewel of the master " (Sm.). Panel, inches by 10 inches.