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 xii ADRIAEN BROUWER 647 198^. A Peasant singing. Half-length. His face is distorted. Panel, 5^ inches by 4 inches. Sale. F. Baars, C. Bennert, and others, Cologne, May 14, 1900, No. n. 198^. An Old Flute-Player. Engraved by W. Vaillant (Wessely, 130). ^99. THE TOPER. Half-length. An old woman sits behind a table, turned three-quarters right, with his head to the front and bent down. He wears a fur-trimmed cap. His toothless mouth is open, as he looks with a smile into a jug held in his left hand. His right hand, holding a pipe, rests on the table. The picture looks very good. The expression is full of life. Panel, 6 inches by 5 inches. In the collection of Lavalard de Roye, Paris. In the Amiens Museum, Lavalard bequest, 1899 catalogue, No. 77. Nwo. A PEASANT SINGING. He sits, facing right, on a tub- chair, holding a pipe in his right hand and raising a jug in his left. He throws his head back, with the mouth wide open. In the right foreground is a fire. Brownish background. [Compare the replica, 203.] Panel, 7^ inches by 6 inches. A replica is at Vienna (203). In the Suermondt collection, 1874. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 853E. 201. A MAN WITH A JUG. Half-length. He is turned three- quarters left, but looks to the left foreground. His hair is rough ; he has a moustache and pointed beard. He holds a jug in his left arm. A replica, in the collection of J. Lenglart at Lille, is ascribed by the owner to Craesbeeck. Apparently the same subject was engraved in mezzotint by J. Burke in 1771. In the collection of Bononi Cereda, Milan. "-2O2. A MAN. Half-length. His figure is in profile to the right. His laughing face is in a three-quarter view, and he looks at the spectator. He wears a cap, and holds a beer-glass in his left hand. Oval. In the collection of Adolphe Schloss, Paris. 203. A PEASANT SINGING. A peasant sits on a tub-chair in profile to the right. He holds his lighted pipe in his right hand, and lifts his jug in his left. His mouth is wide open ; his eyes are turned up. He wears a cap. To the right a fire burns ; there are no other accessories. [Compare the replica, 200.] Signed on the tub with the monogram ; panel, 8 inches by 6 inches. A replica is at Berlin (200). Sale. Erasmus von Engert, Vienna, June 5, 1871, No. 15. In the Imperial Gallery, Vienna, 1906 catalogue, No. 1135.