i JAN STEEN 61 182. THE SURGEON'S VISIT. A sick woman, whose leg is being bandaged by the surgeon. In 1897 the picture was hung so high that it could not be properly seen. It is not noticed in the large catalogue, nor in the small catalogue of 1904. Now at Hampton Court Palace, 1897 catalogue, No. 459. 183. THE VILLAGE SURGEON. The surgeon takes a plaster from the foot of a peasant. A woman looks on. Three figures. Ascribed to Brouwer, but by Jan Steen. Now in the Nimes Museum, Gower collection. 184. THE ITINERANT QUACK DOCTOR. Before a table under an umbrella stands the quack, commending the virtues of a substance wrapped in paper to a crowd of old and young. An elderly woman holds out a urine-glass to him. Behind him stands his servant as a merryman. In the left foreground a young woman with a child at her breast offers for sale some cakes in a basket. On the right, a boy seated by a stream is filling his cap with water. Among the spectators is a youth on a donkey. Signed in full, but a later hand has gone over the signature ; canvas, 47 inches by 59 inches. Exhibited in DUsseldorf, 1886, No. 318. In the collection of Count Esterhazy, Nordkirchen, Westphalia. (Now in that of the Due d'Arenberg ?) 185. A VILLAGE SURGEON REMOVING A PLASTER FROM A PEASANT'S FOOT. The patient sits to the left, on an upturned basket, and watches the operation with face drawn as in pain. The surgeon wears top-boots and a cap trimmed with fur. A woman stands near with a cloth in readiness. A puppy crouches on the ground near a foot-warmer. Near it are divers vessels, a basket of eggs, a pair of scissors, and the peasant's slipper and stocking. Before the window in the left background is a table with a globe, books, an inkpot, a violin, and other things. In the right background a boy and a girl seem to be admiring the surgeon's instruments ; above them, on a shelf, are numerous bottles. A bird-cage is suspended from the ceiling. Signed in full in the left-hand bottom corner ; oak panel, 23 inches by 19 inches. Sale. Baron de Hirsch, London, February 6, 1897, No. 51. In the collection of M. de Pret de Rose van Calesberg, Antwerp. In the possession of the dealer F. Kleinberger, Paris. Now in the Nardus collection, Chateau d'Arnouville, near Paris. 1 86. THE OPERATION. W. 16. A peasant who imagines that he has stones in his head sits fast bound to a chair at the village surgeon's. Behind him stands the surgeon, apparently operating, and dropping a couple of stones from the peasant's head into a bowl which a sly old woman holds out. To the left, behind the chair, is a boy, who gives the surgeon stones from a basket. A crow sits on the cross-bar of
