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 xii ADRIAEN BROUWER 577 4.6g. A Droll Schoolmaster. Sale.. Fr. Decker, Haarlem, August 29, 1752, No. 70. 46 A. A Village School. Panel, about 14 inches by 17 inches. Exhibited at Cologne, 1840, No. 209. Then in the collection of Leonard Beckers. . 46;'. A School. A master boxes a boy's ears ; the boy laughs. Several children. Panel. Sale. Leyden, July 21, 1841, No. 13. 467'. A School. A circular picture. Painted under the influence of P. Brueghel the elder, according to Bode, Great Masters of Dutch and Flemish Painting, p. 277. A Dutch imitation was in the possession of a dealer at The Hague, 1905. ^>7. PATERNAL DUTIES. In a room a peasant sits facing the spectator, holding his little boy on his knee and wiping him. Behind him to the right his scolding wife sits at her spinning-wheel. In the left foreground is a table with some things on it. On a shelf on the back wall are a bottle, a pot, and other objects. The catalogue describes this as an early work, but it is certainly not so early as the two pictures at Amsterdam (102, 166). Panel, 8 inches by 5 inches. A clumsy copy is in the Bouches de Perthes Museum, Abbeville, No. 94. Another copy is in a private collection in Paris ; here the child's figure has been painted out, and the peasant holds a glass in his right hand and a jug in his left. Engraved by J. Ph. Le Bas in the Lebrun Gallery. In the collection of the King of Poland. In the Dresden Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1057. ^. A LAUGHING MAN. Head of a man looking down and laughing as he gives a boy drink. A very good picture, catalogued as by an unknown painter. [Pendant to 2140.] Panel, 4^ inches by 4^ inches. In the Le Mans Museum, 1892 catalogue, No. 357. V). A MAN BAKING PANCAKES. He is dressed in light red. Behind him is a child. In the left background is a group of four figures. Panel, 13 inches by io inches. In the collection of John G. Johnson, Philadelphia. 49<?tf. A Man baking Cakes. A small picture. In the inventory of Rembrandt's goods, taken on July 25, 1656, at Amsterdam, No. I. VOL. Ill 2 P