42 JAN STEEN SECT. an infant in a tub ; his gaunt sister gives the child a horn from which to drink. In the right foreground a man is chopping wood. In the left foreground is a pump ; a woman seated on the floor beside it is opening a mussel. Three persons stand by the fireplace. To the left, steps lead into the open air. At the top stands a man inviting a stout gentleman who is at the door to share the meal. A man at the bottom of the steps holds out to him a glass and two lemons on a plate, with a mocking gesture. Signed in full in the right-hand bottom corner ; panel, 23 inches by 23^ inches. Sales. Seger Tierens, The Hague, July 28, 1743, No. 1 86 (360 florins, with the pendant: see 116). Hendrik van der Vugt, Amsterdam, April 27, 1745, No. 68 (113 florins, with the pendant: see 116). Imported into England by Chaplin (Sm. 1842). Sale. Thyssen, Paris, December 20, 1856, No. 38 (915 francs). Now in the collection of G. von Mallmann, Blaschkow, Bohemia. 115. THE WELL-FED FAMILY. Sm. 48; W. 352. A jovial fellow who looks out of the picture is cutting a ham at a table to the right. An old woman beside him is shaking with laughter. To the left a stout woman sits in an arm-chair ; a man with a tall hat offers her a glass of wine. In the centre of the foreground stands an old man with a bald head ; one of his stockings has slipped down. He has taken off his hat and is drinking long draughts from a wine-glass. By the fireplace in the background a woman is attending to a pot. In the right foreground are two children ; a boy with a soft felt hat looks into a jug, and a girl throws crumbs from her apron to a dog. A man stands in a passage to the right. It is very fine in tone. Signed in full in the left foreground ; panel, 14 inches by 17^ inches. Possibly identical with the picture in the collection of Peter Norton, 1833 (573). Sales. Chevalier Lambert, Paris, March 27, 1787 (1000 francs). Keil-Grote, Cologne, June 7, 1886, No. 38 (6600 marks, Prince Liechtenstein). Now in the gallery of Prince Liechtenstein, Vienna. 115*. The Weil-Fed Family. Sold on July 3, 1651, by H. Appelboom, The Hague, to Field-Marshal Wrangel, Governor-General of Pomerania, for 65 florins, with the pendant. [Communicated by O. Granberg to Bredius, December 1904.] 115^. The Starved Family. Pendant to the foregoing picture, and sold with it to Wrangel in 1651. 1 1 6. The Well-Fed Family. Sm. Suppl. 81 ; W. 397. Panel, 23^ inches by 24 inches. Sales. Seger Tierens, The Hague, July 28, 1743, No. 185 (360 florins, with the pendant : see 114).
