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 xii ADRIAEN BROUWER 623 glass. The other man on the right, in full light, is almost in profile. He wears a red cap, and lights his pipe with a spill. Signed on the chair to the right " A. B. A." ; panel, 8J inches by 7 inches. Sale. H. D. Roussel, Brussels, May 23, 1893, No. 39. Two Smokers. On a tub-chair a peasant sits blowing out rings of smoke. Another peasant, pipe in hand, stands watching him. Signed on the chair with the monogram ; panel, 8 inches by 6J inches. Sale. Goecke and others, Cologne, June 5, 1893, No. 127. 155*. A Company of Peasants. In a large room are men and women, who drink and embrace. An old couple dance before the fire. A man standing on a table plays the bagpipes. Canvas, 22 inches by 32 inches. Sale. Krupp, junior, and others, Cologne, October 29, 1894, No. 29. I55/ Interior with a Man and Woman. Half-length. He holds a beer-glass and a jug. Behind him is the woman. Panel, 8 inches by 5! inches. In the collection of Lord Donegal. Sale. Henry Doetsch, London, June 22, 1895, No. 296. 155^. Two Peasants. One sits on a chair before a cask filling his pipe. A jug is beside him ; another is on the cask. The other man is behind, seen from the back. Signed ; panel, 9^ inches by 7^ inches. Sale. Van den Wiele, Malines, October 26, 1896, No. 43. 156. THREE SMOKERS. In a room, two stout red-faced men sit on a bench before a cask. One man holds a jug ; the other has a pipe, and looks at his comrade. A third man, a hunchback, behind them fills his pipe. Panel, 10^ inches by 9 inches. Sale. Weyer, Amsterdam, April 24, 1906, No. 56 (170 florins). 157. A MAN FILLING HIS PIPE. With three other figures round a cask. On a bench is a red cloth ; in front of it is a jug. Early and very characteristic. Exhibited in the Rembrandt Exhibition of the Amsterdam dealers Fred. Muller and Co., 1906. 158. Men drinking at an Inn. In an interior, with a wooden partition on the left, a peasant sits in the centre foreground, seen in full iface and almost at full length. He bends down his head and shoulders three- quarters left, and looks with a smile into a jug which he holds with both hands. A flute is stuck in the band of his cap. He has a grey doublet and white breeches. Over his left shoulder looks an older man, who stands behind to the right and rubs his chin with his left hand ; this man has a pipe in his cap. By the partition to the left, on which a drawing of a