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 r JAN STEEN 219 812. A Lady and Gentleman in a Room. The woman sits with a book in her lap, and offers a chair to a man entering the room. He looks at a bed behind the woman. Panel, 16 inches by I2| inches. Sale. J. Nepveu and A. Zalm, Amsterdam, April 3, 1837, No. 67 (475 florins, Netscher). 813. A Love Scene. In the foreground of a room stands a man holding a jug and a glass of wine. At a table near him sits a woman peeling an apple. Behind her are a maid-servant and a boy. On the left are two musicians. A man enters at the door in the background. Panel, 19 J inches by 14 inches. Sale. Franzi, Amsterdam, October 5, 1837, No. 46 (24 florins, Wolff). 814. The Old Man in Love. Sm. Suppl. 97 ; W. 402. On the right of a room sits an elderly man of respectable appearance ; he looks earnestly at a comely maid-servant who brings him a glass of wine, and grasps her by the apron. The scene excites the laughter of a jovial man, who is standing beside a table to the left and pressing down the tobacco in his pipe with his little finger. The floor is strewn with egg-shells. Panel, 22| inches .by 18 inches. Sale. Ew. van Dishoek, The Hague, June 9, 1745, No. 77 (87 florins). In the possession of the dealer Smith, London, 1842. 814*7. The Love- Letter. In a room a young girl sits leaning on a table. She is thinking about the letter in her hand. It is loosely painted. Canvas, 25^ inches by 25 inches. Sale. Paris, March 22, 1845, No. 37 (100 francs). 8i4/>. A Love Scene. A girl listens attentively to a young man seated beside her. Canvas, 14^ inches by 12 inches. Sale. Paris, March 22, 1845, No. 38. 814^. A Man and a Woman. W. 470. In a room a woman, seated on a stone, watches a man going to the cellar. It is carefully rendered. Panel, 12 inches by 9^ inches. Sale. V. L. Vegelin van Claerbergen, Leeuwarden, April 6, 1846, No. 90. 814^. An old Man embracing a Girl. W. 475. Near them are an old woman and an infant in a cradle. Canvas, 31 inches by 26 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, 1850. 814*. A Man and Woman sleeping in the Open. A work of poor quality. Described by Waagen (ii. 237). Then (1854) in the collection of Lord Ward, afterwards Earl of Dudley, London ; but not in the Dudley sale, London, June 25, 1892.