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 xvn GERARD TER BORCH 73 charcoal pan. On the cask lie playing-cards and a pipe. On the floor in the foreground is a jug. Canvas, 39^- inches by 30^ inches. In the collection of Count Esterhazy, Vienna. In the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1906 catalogue, No. 404. 198. A TAVERN SCENE. An officer sits in profile to the left at a table, holding a glass in both hands. His long dark hair falls on his shoulders ; he wears a yellow jacket and a red cap. Beside him sits his companion, wrapped in a large dark cloak, and wearing a tall slouch hat, who also holds a glass, and looks at his comrade. Behind them to the right stands a boy, with a bottle under his arm, who looks out of the picture. Three-quarter length. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 9! inches by 7 inches. A copy was in the possession of a Paris dealer, 1911. Engraved in mezzotint by J. van Somer. In the collection of R. Mege de Malmont. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1901, No. 50. In the collection of the late Adolphe Schloss, Paris. 199. A TAVERN SCENE. An armed cavalier, in a cuirass with an orange sash, sits at a table, on the edge of which he leans his right arm. He drains a large glass which he raises in his left hand. His hair falls on his shoulders ; his plumed hat lies on his left knee. Behind him another soldier in a fur cap, holding a pipe in his left hand, stands at the table, conversing with a maid-servant who stands beside him. In front a man, seen partly from the back, blows a trumpet from which hangs a banner. A large jug stands on the floor close to the cask. In the foreground lies a little brown and white spotted dog. Signed in the centre, and dated 1658 ; canvas, 37^ inches by 32 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1878, No. 74. [Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 128. Translator.'] Sales. P. L. de Neufville, Leyden, March 15, 1736 (Hoet, i. 459), No. 8 (300 florins). Taets van Amerongen, Amsterdam, July 3, 1805, No. 45 (650 florins, Reyers). In the collection of Onley Savill-Onley. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1895, No. 47. In the collection of John G. Johnson, Philadelphia. 200. A Soldier at an Inn. In a homely inn a soldier, holding a glass in his right hand, sits beside a cask on which is a dish of food. The landlady brings more dishes. Well executed. Canvas, 20 J inches by 15 inches. Sale. F. R. von Berthold, C. G. Hartman, D. P. Cepero, and others, Cologne, December 9, 1898, No. 130. 20 1. The Interior of an Inn. A soldier in a doeskin coat sits beside another at a table. A third soldier stands.