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 ii GABRIEL METSU 317 He wears a soft hat, a brown coat, and a red vest. The figure is seen at half-length. Signed " G. Metsu " ; canvas, 7 inches by 5 inches. Formerly in the Gimberg collection, Zutphen. Now in the collection of Victor de Stuers, The Hague. 197. THE DROWSY LANDLADY. Sm. 55 and Suppl. (add.) 42. A woman in a scarlet gown, with a white apron, collar, and cap, sits asleep in a chair, holding a clay pipe in her right hand. Her figure is seen to the knees. On a table covered with a cloth beside her are playing- cards, a box, a slate, a jug, and other things. To the right and left behind her chair stand two men. The man to the left, who is bare- headed, tries to loosen her dress at the neck with his pipe. The other man, who wears a plumed hat, watches with a smile. In the left fore- ground is a spaniel. At the back is a chimney-piece with some china on it. Waagen thought the picture to belong to the artist's best period. " This beautiful production is distinguished by delicate execution, added to vigorous colouring and effect " (Sm.). Signed in full on the slate ; panel, 14 inches by I2| inches. Described by Descamps and by Waagen (ii. 295). Sales. Griffier Fagel, at P. Coxe, Burrell and Foster's, London, May 22, 1801, No. 48 (165: i8s.). Willett Willett, 1813 (118:133.). W. D. Acraman, Bristol, August 1842 (210, Brown). In the Wynn Ellis collection. Now in the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 970; in the Wynn Ellis bequest of 1876. 198. A CAVALIER ON HORSEBACK BEFORE AN INN. Sm. 38. A cavalier on horseback halts in front of an inn. He wears a buff" jacket and cuirass, an orange scarf and buff boots. He has his plumed hat in one hand, and in the other holds a mug which a girl, who stands on the steps, is filling with liquor. A man-servant holds the horse's head. It probably belongs to the same period as the pictures of smithies (219-20), and resembles in style the Wallace collection picture Signed in full above the inn door; canvas on panel, 26 inches by 20 inches. Described by Descamps as in the Lubbeling collection, and by Waagen (ii. 44). Engraved by Tellier in the "Le Brun Gallery"; and in the "Stafford Gallery," No. 74. Sale. Lambert Witsen, Amsterdam, May 25, 1746, No. 5 (615 florins). In the Lubbeling collection (Hoet, ii. 518, and Descamps). Sales. Le Brun, Paris, 1778 (5030 francs). London, 1790 (210, Tassaert). (Probably) London, 1794 (83 : 135., Williamson) a picture from the collection of the Due de Quesnoy. Morland, London, 1799 G68 : 55., Parke). Pugh, London, 1799 (100: i6s., Sturgeon). Now in the Bridgewater Gallery, London, No. 194, where it was before 1833-