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 f lo / ADRIAEN BROUWER SECT. The subject, in slightly varying dimensions, has occurred in various sales, and it is uncertain whether the following relate to one picture or to more than one : Salts. Antwerp, June 8, 1803, No. in (n florins 5, Maes) measuring 10 inches by 8 inches. P. L. Mortier, Amsterdam, May 6, 1846, No. 75 (6 florins, Abrams) measuring 1 1 inches by 8^ inches. Van den Wiele, Malines, October 26, 1896, No. 57 measuring 10 inches by 7^ inches. Another example is 126. Sale. Chapuis, Brussels, December 4, 1865. In the Suermondt Museum, Aachen, 1883 catalogue, No. 18. -rm. A RUSTIC DRINKING PARTY. Eight figures are grouped round a table. On the left, beside the table, a peasant sits on a tub-chair in profile to the right, but with his head to the front and his eyes looking at the spectator. He is singing. With his left hand he fills a pipe which he holds in his right hand. He has another pipe in his fur cap. Behind him to the right sits a second man, turned three-quarters right ; he too is singing, but lifts a jug to his lips with his right hand. Near him to the right is a woman singing. Behind her stands an old man with a cap ; he lifts up his hands, holding a glass in the right, and sings. On the right, beside the table, a man lights his pipe at a charcoal pan. A knife is stuck in the table. On the floor in front lies a woman asleep, with her right hand on her chin. A screaming child lies half upon her. On a chair to the right sits a peasant asleep, with his right hand thrust under his doublet and his left hand hanging down. At the back many figures go away through a door. In the coloured manner of his first period, and a very characteristic example of it. [Compare 52, 56, 97, 108, 166.] Signed on the tub to the left with the monogram ; panel, 10 inches by 13 inches. The picture in the sale Countess Reigersberg, Cologne, October 15, 1890, No. 21, on panel, 15 inches by 22 inches was possibly a copy of this. In the collection of A. L. van Heteren, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 452) ; acquired from it in 1 809 for the Amsterdam Museum. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 641. THREE SMOKERS. In the left foreground a fair young man sits on a bench. He wears a grey blouse and a dark cap. He holds a grey clay pipe in his right hand and lights it at a burning spill which he holds in his left hand. To the right sits a peasant on the floor, seen from the back j he wears a red doublet and a brown hat. Between the two men a red-haired man leans against the wall, blowing out a cloud of smoke. On the left wall are caricatures. Signed on the bench to the left with the monogram ; panel, 8 inches by 6 inches. Exhibited at Berlin, 1890, No. 20. Sak.M. D. Wolff, Berlin, November 17, 1885. In the collection of W. Gumprecht, Berlin. 104. FOUR DRUNKEN PEASANTS SMOKING. They