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xii ADRIAEN BROUWER 573 Panel, 9! inches by 14^ inches. Engraved by C. Visscher (Wussin, 168). A replica is in the collection of Adolphe Schloss, Paris. In the collection of Remy van Haanen, Vienna, 1883. In the Suermondt Museum, Aachen, second supplement to the catalogue of 1884, No. 168. 36. AN OPERATION ON THE FOOT. A lightly clad man sits on a chest in profile to the right. His left foot, which is bare, is pressed hard against the edge of a table. His hands rest on his shin. He wears a broad-brimmed hat with the front edge turned up, a blue doublet, cloak, and breeches, and yellow sleeves. He looks at his naked foot, on which the village surgeon, who stands behind wearing a dirty red cap, is operating. Between the two figures, at the back, an old woman, wearing a cap and carrying her right arm in a sling, looks anxiously at the patient. On the table are a pot of ointment and two bottles. In the window opening above to the right are two bottles. Another bottle is in a niche in the back wall. Painted about 1636-7, according to the catalogue. Panel, 14 inches by 10 inches. Edited by J. Eissenhardt. In the collection of Count Schonborn, Pommersfelden, 1719 catalogue, No. 219 ; sold in Paris, May 17, 1867, No. 14 (bought for Frankfort). In the Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut, Frankfort-on-Main, 1900 catalogue, No. 147. ^7. AN OPERATION ON THE FOOT. In the left fore- ground a man sits on a wooden block in profile to the right. He rests his left leg on his right knee ; one hand rests on his naked foot, while the other is on his knee. He watches the surgeon, who kneels on his right knee and holds the patient's foot firmly, operating with an instrument. An old woman at the back, holding a knife in her left hand, prepares a plaster. She looks round to the left where another customer enters at a door. In the right background a peasant is shaved at a window. He sits on a tub which has been made into a chair ; his hat and mandoline lie on a table beside him. All kinds of bottles and utensils are scattered about the room. On a shelf to the right, close to the door, is a skull. On a wooden bench in the right foreground, with a broom leaning against it, is a jug. In front, on the floor, is a tall pot with a candlestick on it, and a smaller pot close beside it. In the left foreground lie a bag, a cap, and a stick. Panel, 12 inches by 16 inches. Lithographed by J. Woelffle. In the collection of the Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm (who died 1716), Diisseldorf (Von Gool, ii. 564). In the Mannheim Gallery. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 880. -^a. AN OPERATION ON THE FOOT. A man has his foot operated on. In the left background a woman prepares a plaster. Panel, 13 inches by io| inches. In the collection of John G. Johnson, Philadelphia.