i 5 8 JAN STEEN SECT. Sale. Comte Robert de Cornelissen, Brussels, May n, 1857, No. 82. In the possession of the dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, Paris. Now in the possession of the dealer P. Mersch, Paris. 603. THE DRAINED CASK. Sm. Suppl. 70; W. 95. A rustic company in a tavern look on with concern as a man tilts a cask to one side in order to let the last drops of wine run out. A maid-servant holds a cup underneath it. Behind the cask is an old woman laughing. At a table to the left stand a man with a pipe and another with a jug in his right hand, curiously watching the groups round the cask. On the floor in front are the spigot, playing-cards, and an overturned jug. At the back a door leads into the open. The picture looks better in a repro- duction than it is in fact. It is not very well executed. Signed in full on the cask ; canvas, 35^ inches by 41 1 inches. Sales. P. Caauw, Leyden, August 12, 1768, No. 8 (172 florins). Amsterdam, June 13, 1809, No. 136. Purchased by Arteria with the Boursault collection for Edmund Higginson of Saltmarsh Castle, Kent, 1 842 catalogue, No. 80. Salei. Edmund Higginson, 1846 (bought in for 115:105.); and 1860 Marquis de la Rochebousseau, Paris, May 5, 1873. E. Martinet, Paris, February 27, 1896, No. 38. In the possession of the dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, Paris ; in his " Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1896, No. 44, and in his exhibition of 1901, No. 186. 604. A RUSTIC FEAST. W. 40 and 286. Peasants dance in the open air under a canopy of leaves and flowers suspended from trees ; a fiddler stands on an eminence. On the right a girl pulls up her stocking. An old peasant dances with a girl in the foreground. On the left is a dog beside a pot. Two men lie on the grass. The little figures are in the style of the picture belonging to Dr. Bredius, and exhibited at the Mauritshuis (624). The house with a peculiar bay is characteristic of German or Limburg rather than of Dutch architecture. Signed in full on the right, and dated on the archway of a house 1671 ; canvas, 21 1 inches by 17 inches. Sale. Rotterdam, September 20, 1756 (Terw. 161), No. 23 (59 florins). In the Lelieveld collection, Leyden ; said to have been painted for the family. In the Van der Berck van Heemstede collection, Leyden. In the possession of the dealer E. Warneck, Paris, 1901. Now in the collection of Adolphe Schloss, Paris. 6040. A Rustic Company. Of the artist's best period. Sale. Jacob van Hoek, Amsterdam, April 12, 1719, No. 5 (355 florins). 604^. A Company of drunken Men. W. 310. Sale. Jacob Boreel, Amsterdam, April 21, 1746, No. 24 (51 florins). 6o4<r. Rustics singing. W. 3120. Sale. Sebastian Heemskerck, Amsterdam, March 31, 1749, No. 12 (30 florins).
