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 11 GABRIEL METSU 305 Signed in full above the door at the back; panel, 15! inches by 12 inches. Sales. The widow A. de la Court, nee C. Backer, Leyden, September 8, 1766, No. 22 (8 10 florins, Van der Velde). Blondel de Gagny, Paris, December 18, 1776, No. 108 (2572 francs). Comte de Vaudreuil, Paris, November 24, 1784, No. 49 (2900 francs, Lerouge). Solirene, Paris, March 1 1, 1812 (4600 francs). Lapeyriere, Paris, April 14, 1817 (5510 francs, Prince d'Arenberg of Brussels). Henry Arteria, London, April 23, 1850, No. 89 (367: ios.). In the Oppenheim collection. Now in the Picture Gallery, Brussels, 1900 catalogue, No. 296 ; acquired in 1861 through Etienne Le Roy. 169. LOVERS AT BREAKFAST (or, Interior of a Cabaret). Sm. in. A man and a young woman in a red dress with a black jacket sit towards the left at a wooden table, on which are a jug, some fish, and a loaf. The woman has a plate of strawberries in her lap, and holds some in her right hand. The man puts his left arm round the woman's neck and raises a tall glass in his right hand. In the background to the left the hostess of the tavern chalks up the reckoning on a board. It shows the influence of Rembrandt's portrait of himself with Saskia, now at Dresden. " This is painted in the artist's free and most fascinating manner " (Sm.). Signed at the top to the left "G. Metsu, 1661 " ; panel, 14 inches by 12 inches. In the Saxon inventory of 1722, A. 551. Now in the Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1902 catalogue, No. 1732. 170. A YOUNG COUPLE AT BREAKFAST. On the left sits a young woman of the middle class, wearing a red bodice trimmed with fur at the neck and sleeves. Her costume recalls that of the woman in 167, and that of the so-called "Nurse of Titus" by Rembrandt, in the drawing at Haarlem. She has a plate in her lap, and holds out a tall glass, which the cavalier seated on the right grasps by the foot in order to fill it. The man wears knee breeches, white puffed sleeves, and a sleeve- less doublet. He sits behind a heavy oak table from which he takes up a pewter pot ; on the table, covered with a striped cloth, are various eatables. In the background a maid-servant with a dish in her hands comes down a few steps from an upper room. Behind her are seen another couple seated in that room. It is an excellent picture. Signed in full "G. Metsu, 1667 " ; panel, 25! inches by 19 inches. [A good old copy of this was in the sales of Lenglart of Lille, in Paris, and of A. G. Deberghe, in Brussels, June 7, 1906, No. 134, under the name of J. Ochtervelt.] Now in the Picture Gallery, Karlsruhe, 1894 catalogue, No. 261. 171. A YOUNG MAN SMOKING, WITH A GIRL POUR- ING OUT BEER. Sm. 42 and Suppl. n. On the right the young man sits in profile to the left, and lights his pipe at a charcoal-pan upon VOL. i x