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 i JAN STEEN 225 832. A YOUNG WOMAN PLAYING A MUSICAL IN- STRUMENT. In the background is an old woman. Apparently a brothel. In a private collection, Cologne, about the year 1893. 833. AN INTERIOR. On the left is a woman in bed. A man diverts himself with a young woman. The man wears a red costume and grey cloak, and holds a glass of wine in his outstretched hand. The woman is dressed in a blue gown, a light purple jacket trimmed with fur, and a brown skirt ; she has a pipe in her right hand and a white jug in her left. In the right background are a fiddler and another person. In front of the man are a charcoal-pan and a pipe. Signed in full in the right-hand bottom corner ; 22 J inches by 19 inches. Now in the collection of C. T. D. Crews, London. 834. THE CAVALIER AND THE GIRL. Sm. Suppl. 33 ; W. 129. A man with his neck bare and a cap on his head looks at a cavalier, who holds a girl on his knee. Two men and a woman are at a table, upon which are a ham and a loaf. On a bench beside them are a glass, a pipe, some shrimps, and a jacket. At the open door in the back- ground are a youth and two men who are conversing with a person out- side. It is an excellent picture, in the manner of G. Metsu. Signed in full ; 14^ inches by 19 inches. Described by Waagen (Suppl. 161). Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1877, No. 122. In the collection of Abraham Robarts, 1822 (Sm.). Now in the collection of A. J. Robarts, London. 835. BAD COMPANY. Sm. 125, Suppl. in; W. 140. In> tavern, a young man dressed in a red jacket and grey breeches is sleeping with his head on the lap of a girl seated to his right. The girl is dressed in blue and holds a glass of wine. Another girl has taken the man's watch from his pocket and gives it to an old woman, who receives it with a look of cunning delight. On the right is a bed. In the left background a man sits smoking at a table laid for a meal ; behind him stands a fiddler. On the floor in the foreground is the young man's hat; oyster-shells, cards, and the fragments of a broken glass are strewn about. On the right is a jug. It is a very good picture. Signed in full in the left-hand bottom corner ; panel, 1 6 inches by 12^ inches. Exhibited in the British Gallery, 1822. Sales. G. W. Taylor, London, 1823 (210). Charles Cope, London, 1872 (^190, Colnaghi). Now in the Louvre, Paris, 1900 catalogue, No. 2580 ; acquired in 1 88 1. 836. A MAN GIVING MONEY TO A WOMAN. Dark and badly hung. Probably genuine. A small picture. In the collection of Frau Kauffmann, St. Petersburg (?) (A. Bredius). VOL. I Q,