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 632 ADRIAEN BROUWER SECT. him by the hair and the left cheek. A third man, seen from the back in the left foreground, tries to pull the second man off. Behind him a fourth man, swinging a cudgel round his head, pursues a fifth man, who rushes to the left towards the open door. On a beam in the right fore- ground hang a cloth and another object. In the right background a man holding a jug in his arms comes down some steps. At the door behind him, to the right, a woman puts her head in. Panel, 9 inches by 12 inches. An old copy was in a private collection in Philadelphia. In the Electoral Gallery, Munich. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich. 174. TWO PEASANTS FIGHTING. In a room a man sits on a bench, in full face, with his mouth wide open. He wears a large felt hat with turned-up brim and a pipe stuck in it. He holds on his hat with his left hand, while with the right he grasps the hair of a peasant standing close to him. This man, who looks up with an expression of pain, tries to strike his adversary in the neck with his right fist. In the left foreground is an earthenware jug on a cask. Near it to the left lies a paper of tobacco. Panel, 6 inches by 5^ inches. A copy was in the sale : L. Block of Vienna, Amsterdam, November 14, 1905, No. 3 (1500 florins). In the Zweibrticken Gallery. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 886. 175. PEASANTS FIGHTING. In the centre of a room a man falls to the ground, upsetting a cask. Another man to the left seizes him by the hair. A shrieking woman runs forward to the rescue. In the right background sits a man in profile to the left. On the floor in front are a jug on the right and a wooden bench on the left. In the left wall is a window ; the shutter, formed of two boards, stands open ; on it is drawn a caricature. In the window is a jug. Panel, 12 inches by 10 inches. An old copy is in the Amiens Museum, 1899 catalogue, No. 78. In the Electoral Gallery, Munich. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 889. tj6. PEASANTS FIGHTING. At an inn several peasants are fighting hand to hand. One man shrieks with pain and tries to draw his knife ; he is held back by another man, who tries to separate the com- batants. Near them, on a cask, an earthenware beer-jug has been upset. In the left background a man with his head bleeding is driven out at the door by his adversary with a stick. On the right the landlord brings in a fresh jug. An old woman looks curiously through the half-opened door. Painted with very few colours. Panel, 10 inches by I2| inches. In the Crozat collection. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 939. j j6a. A Peasant Brawl. One man seizes another by the throat. Sale. P. P. Rubens, Antwerp, May 1641, No. 277 (Sm. Suppl. 364).