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 204 JAN STEEN SECT. One replica was in the sale, Amsterdam, November 26, 1851 ; and another in the sale, Ridder de Coninck, Ghent, August 4, 1856, No. 60. Acquired by the Empress Catherine II. Now in the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 298. [The catalogue wrongly identifies this with the picture of the Amsterdam sales of 1757 and 1765 ; see 762.] 758*. A Sleeping Man and a Woman. Sale. D'Orville, Amsterdam, July 15, 1705, No. 52 (50 florins). 758/>. A Woman Asleep. W. 425. Sale. Th. Wilkens, Amsterdam, July 17, 1748 (50 florins). 758*:. A Drunken Man and Woman Asleep. W. 448. 21 1 inches by 20 inches. Sale. Jacoba Keiser, Alkmaar, June 2, 1766, No. 5 (22 florins). 758^. A Woman Asleep and Two other Persons. Sale. J. H. Grave van Wassenaar, Amsterdam, October 25, 1769. 759. The Couple Asleep. Sm. 93 ; W. 369. An interior, with a man and a woman asleep. The woman, wearing an orange jacket trimmed with white fur, leans her right arm on a blue cushion. The man sits on the left, with his head on the table. " Painted in the manner of Metsu " (Sm.). Canvas, 7 inches by 9 inches. Sales. (Possibly) G. van Oostrum, The Hague, September 23, 1765 (16 florins). De Smeth van Alphen, 1810 (Sm.) ; but no picture of these dimen- sions is in the sale catalogue. Le Brun, Paris, April 17, 1811 (3600 francs). 760. A Man Asleep and a Pair of Lovers. In the foreground a man with a jug in his hand sits, leaning on a cask, asleep. At the back is a woman, whom a man is embracing. Panel, 14^ inches by 14 inches. Sale. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Rotterdam, November 12, 1827, No. 9 (67 florins, De Lelie). 760*. A Young Woman Asleep. Canvas. Sale. Van Barneveld, Van den Haute, and others, Antwerp, February 26, 1844, No. 75. 761. A Woman Asleep. Life size. Exhibited in Manchester, 1857, No. 763. Then in the collection of Abraham Darby. 761*. A Man and a Woman Asleep at a Table. Sketchy and very lifelike. Panel, 9 inches by 8 inches. Sales. B. E. L. Baron Collot d'Escury, Leeuwarden, October 17, 1831, No. 32. Rotterdam, March 15, 1866, No. 13 (31 florins, Musscher).