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 JAN STEEN CATALOGUE RAISONNE 1. LOT AND HIS DAUGHTERS. W. 124. Lot wears a red velvet robe trimmed with fur. His breast is uncovered. He smiles in a tipsy manner at his daughter, who stands at his right. She is dressed in a yellow gown and holds a wine-cup over him. On the left is his other daughter, dressed in dark green : she loosens her girdle and holds a jug in her right hand. Lot is an old man of the familiar type that often recurs in Jan Steen's pictures. It is a very expressive work. The laughing face of the girl on the right is subtly rendered. A red cap lies on the ground before Lot. Near it are a large bottle, a metal plate, and one of Lot's shoes. In the right background are rocks ; to the left is a distant view. Signed in full on a stone to the right ; canvas, 34 inches by 27 inches. Sales. J. H. van Heemskerck, at The Hague, March 29, 1770, No. 107 (8 1 florins, Van de Velde). At The Hague, May 25, 1772, No. 2. Cardinal Fesch, Rome, March 17, 1845, No. 739. Freiherr von Mtlnchhausen, F. Reichardt, J. P. Weyer and others, Cologne, October 28, 1887, No. 135 (2000 marks). Now in the Wessenberg collection at Constance. 2. THE DISMISSAL OF HAGAR. Abraham, in a furred robe, stands to the right upon the steps of his house, and points with his left hand indoors, where Sarah is combing the child Isaac's hair. He lays his right hand consolingly on the shoulder of Hagar, who stands on the ground before him, holding a handkerchief to her weeping eyes. The young Ishmael sits on the ground at her feet, playing with his bow. To the left are two dogs j beyond them is a herdsman with cows and sheep, in a landscape background. The five principal figures are types that occur repeatedly. Signed in full in the right-hand bottom corner j canvas, 5o| inches by 43! inches. In the possession of the dealer Ernst, Dresden, 1876. Now in the Royal Picture Gallery at Dresden, catalogue of 1905, No. 1727. ia. The Story of Hagar. Delivered on. July 3, 1651, by H. Appelboom of The Hague, to Field- Marshal Wrangel, Governor-General of Pomerania, at the price of 36 florins. [Communicated by O. Granberg to A. Bredius, December 1904.] 3. The Departure of Laban. More than twenty persons, with camels and cattle, are making a halt. Canvas, 46^ inches by 71 inches. e.W. Wreesman, Amsterdam, April n, 1816, No. 174 (500 florins, Roos).