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 24 JAN STEEN SECT. Christ upon a low flight of steps. He swings a lash. In front of Him is an overturned table ; a woman is grasping at a chest and a money-bag which have fallen down ; a money-changer lies prostrate on his back. To the left is a woman with a jug in her right hand and a sucking-pig under her left arm. In the left-hand corner two Jews, seated at a table, are hastily gathering up their money. A man stands on a ladder placed against the central pillar and takes down a birdcage. To the right men, women, and children are running away ; a woman fills her basket with eggs ; two children are trying to put back their doves into a cage. On the floor there is an open money-box. At the back, a sick man is carried past upon a wheelbarrow. Signed in full ; canvas, 30^ inches by 43 inches. In the Old Masters Exhibition at the Palais Bourbon, Paris, 1874. Sales. Lord Harrington, London, 1781 (46, Beauvais). Duchesse de Berry, Elysee, Paris, April 4, 1837 (according to the Lemaitre catalogue, but not in the Berry sale catalogue). Malfait of Lille, Paris, December 19, 1864, No. 43. Lemaitre, Paris, March 5, 1870, No. 74. G. Rothan, Paris, May 29, 1890. 63. The Last Supper. W. 210. A masterpiece of the artist's. 26 inches by 25 inches. Sale. C. van Lill, Dordrecht, June 1 8, 1743, No. 10 (60 florins). 64. THE BETRAYAL OF CHRIST. On the right, beside a hedge, stands Christ, on a somewhat higher level than the rest of the picture. Judas stands before Him, grasping His robe and speaking to Him. Both figures are illumined by a lantern, held by a mailed warrior standing above them at the back. In the left foreground are numerous armed men and half-naked men with staves, seen in the harsh light given by torches. The light falls also upon trees at the back, through which the rising moon is visible. In the foreground a fourth source of light, the lantern carried by a man who gropes his way forward, illumines the figures of Peter and the half-naked, cowering Malchus, whose ear Peter has cut off. Near them is a barking dog. It recalls the well-known, youthful work, " The Betrayal of Christ," by A. van Dijck, in the Prado, and, though probably by Jan Steen, was painted under the influence of that picture. Canvas, 61 inches by 49^ inches. In the possession of the dealer Otto Mayer, Barcelona, 1902. Now in the collection of J. V. Novak, Prague. 65. CHRIST AT EMMAUS. The two disciples sit in prayer at a table with a white cloth, in an arbour supported on two pillars and over- grown with foliage. Behind them is a woman, bringing bread ; in the left foreground a youth in a red dress pours out wine. Farther to the back Christ is vanishing. Signed in full in the left-hand bottom corner j canvas, 52 inches by 40 inches.