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 68 JAN STEEN SECT. 217. THE QUACK DOCTOR. 13^ inches by io inches. Sale. At Robinson's and Fisher's, London, June I, 1897, No. 108. 2 1 8. THE VILLAGE SURGEON. A room with four persons. A peasant with an injured foot is seated and is undergoing an operation. His hat hangs on the back of his chair. A woman with a swollen face looks on. In the left background a man is going out at the door. Genuine and very delicate. Signed in full in the left-hand bottom corner ; panel, 14^ inches by 12 inches. Sales. Amsterdam, July 25, 1804, No. 73 (150 florins). M. Udink, Amsterdam, October 28, 1808, No. 56 (75 florins, Spaan). Amsterdam, October 10, 1855, No. 277 (160 florins, Roos). Du Bus deGisignies, Brussels, May 9, 1882, No. 71, and April 14, 1896. Foucart, Valenciennes, October 12, 1898, No. 103. 2i8a. The Village Surgeon. io inches by 8 inches. Sale. F. Manley Sims and others, London, March 23, 1903, No. 19. 219. THE FORTUNE-TELLER. She stands on the left in a stooping posture, with a child on her back. Before her a young woman stretches out her hand ; behind her is a young man with a flat turban. A negro boy holds a sunshade over the young woman. In the distance to the left are a horseman with his back to the spectator and a woman on a balcony. The wall of a palace forms the background. The picture pro- duces a strange impression, because the figures are life-sized ; but the brownish-yellow and pale violet hues of the dresses and the treatment of the drapery are characteristic of the artist. The flesh is brownish in tone. The hand of the young woman is also quite in the manner of Jan Steen. Signed in full in the upper right-hand corner ; canvas, 46^ inches by 60 inches. In the possession of the dealer Schwartz, Vienna, 1902. Now in the collection of Karl J. Trubner, Strassburg. 220. A Fortune-Teller. She is telling the fortune of an old man in front of an inn. With other figures. Very finely composed. Panel, 9^ inches by 8 inches. Sale. G. C. Blanken, The Hague, June 4, 1800, No. 16 (80 florins, Spruyt). 221. A Lady Conversing with a Gipsy Woman. 17 inches by 13^ inches. Sale. D. Versteegh, Amsterdam, November 3, 1823, No. 33 (127 florins, De Lelie). 222. A Peasant's Cottage, with Country Folk. In the fore- ground a fortune-teller plies her trade. Fine drawing and masterly brush- work. Canvas, 12 inches by 9 inches. Sale. J. Roelofs of Nimwegen, Amsterdam, March 8, 1824, No. 143 (70 florins, Van der Berg).