io8 JAN STEEN SECT. 414. THE LUTE-PLAYER. A girl sits in profile to the left, with a lute in her left hand, and looks at the spectator. Near her is an elderly man, leaning his right arm on a table and holding a glass in his left ; a boy pours out wine for him from a jug. On the wall is a picture of a landscape. To the left is a window recess ; in the right background is a bed. The figures are usually identified as Jan Steen and his wife, but there is little resemblance between this elderly man and the painter. It is rather a genre-piece than a portrait-group, though the girl's figure may be a portrait. Signed in full on the right, half-way up ; oak panel, i6| inches by 14 inches. Exhibited at the Portrait Exhibition at The Hague, 1903, No. 121. Formerly in the Niesewand collection, Mlihlheim, and in that of Adolphe Schloss, Paris. Afterwards in the possession of the dealer F. Kleinberger, Paris. In the collection of the late Maurice Kann, Paris. 415. THE MUSIC-LESSON. In a well-furnished room a young woman seated to the left plays a lute. On a table near her sits a young man, holding his hat in his left hand ; he seems to be giving her a lesson. A flute sticks out of his pocket. He rests his left foot on a stool, upon which lies an open music-book. To the left is a bed. An old woman stands behind the table between the young people. A person looks in at the door at the back and makes a warning gesture. Signed in full at the side, and dated 1667 ; canvas, 24 inches by 20 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1880, No. 71. Sales. Richard Foster, Clewer Manor, 1876 (315, Addington). Samuel Addington, London, 1886 (.315, Davis). In the collection of Sir Julian Goldsmid, Bart., 1896. In the possession of the dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, Paris, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1896, No. 42. 416. A SUMMER FESTIVAL IN A GARDEN. In a garden, in which are statues and a well, a young lady, dressed in purple, sits on a stone bench holding a music-book, from which she is singing. She is accompanied on a violin by a young man in black j behind him is a boy playing a clarinet. On the grass to the left lies a lute. Farther back a man is courting a woman. In the middle distance a numerous party of men and women are seated at a table covered with red drapery. In the air hover cupids. Signed in full on the bench ; panel, 22 inches by 17^ inches. Purchased by the Empress Catherine II. Now in the Hermitage Palace at St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 897. 417. THE YOUNG VIOLINIST. Sm. 166 and 194 ; W. 200. In a garden a young girl, with her back to the spectator, sits at a rough table made of a board placed on a tub upon which are a ham, a loaf, and a jug. To the right of her a man with a slouch hat sits on a bench, upon which he has placed his left foot ; he holds a pipe in his left hand.
