i JAN STEEN 39 103. "WINE IS A MOCKER." Sm. Suppl. 37; W. 390. A drunken woman is wheeled in a barrow along the street by two men. Children are standing about, among them a boy carrying a pail and a bottle of wine. Neighbours looking out from the door and the window of a house on the right, and a woman at a well in the background to the left, are laughing at the scene. Upon the projecting part of the house is the inscription, "De Wyn is een Spotter" ("Wine is a mocker"). Canvas, 43-^ inches by 67 inches. Copies are to be noted in the Cologne Museum, 1902 catalogue, No. 717 ; in the Hoogendijk collection at The Hague (Rotterdam Exhibition, 1899, No. 17) ; and in the Arthur Campbell sale, London, April 23, 1904, No. 90. It is uncertain whether the picture of the Edward Solly sale, 1837 (men- tioned by Sm. and W.) was the original or a copy (but Sm. gives its dimensions as 34^ inches by 41 inches). Sales. Amsterdam, September 17, 1727, No. 12 (265 florins). Huybert Ketelaar, Amsterdam, June 19, 1776, No. 223 (n florins, Wubbels). Edward Solly, at Foster and Sons, London, 1837 (82 guineas). Now in the Strauss collection, Vienna. 104-108. The Five Senses. W. 437. Five pictures, each measuring 1 1 inches by 8^ inches. Sales. Amsterdam, April 6, 1695, No. 12 (48 florins). Borwater, The Hague, July 20, 1756, No. 79 (51 florins). Nicolaas van Breemen (Hoet, ii. 486, and Descamps), The Hague, April 3, 1769. Engraved by J. Gole. 109. BAD COMPANY. Sm. 78; W. 74. A man who is smoking rests his foot on the lap of a girl, who has a wine-glass in her right hand. At the table at which they are sitting a woman has fallen asleep. A boy takes something out of her pocket ; two children look on amused. In the background is a fiddler smiling at a girl. A monkey has climbed upon the canopy of a bed and plays with the weights of a clock. Through a half-opened door is another room in which a fire is burning. On the floor in the foreground lie cards, oyster-shells, the smoker's hat, and a dish with a ham, at which a dog is sniffing. The details are delicately rendered ; the composition is somewhat lacking in repose. Signed in full upon the slate lying on the floor ; canvas, 30^ inches by 34^ inches. Described by Ch. Blanc, Waagen (ii. 273), Nagler. Exhibited at the British Institution, 1822, 1831, 1845 ; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1886, No. 90. Sales. P. de Smeth van Alphen, Amsterdam, August I, 1810, No. 96 (1299 florins, Rijers). W. Rijers, Amsterdam, September 21, 1814, No. 143 (1400 florins, Eversdijk). Purchased by the first Duke of Wellington in 1818 from Ferol Bonnemaison, Paris. Now in the collection of the Duke of Wellington, Apsley House, London, 1901 catalogue, No. 73.
