r 608 ADRIAEN BROUWER SECT. 128. THE MASTER DRINKER. On the left of a room nine persons are seated round a table. The most prominent figure is that of a stout man with a fat face, seated on an upturned tub on the right, in profile to the left. His left hand is thrust into his doublet. His right hand holds a tall jug from which he takes deep draughts, to the obvious amazement of the company. A man to the left behind him has risen to congratulate him, swinging a cap in his left hand and holding a jug in his right. In the left foreground a cap is hung on a wooden post ; in the right foreground is a wooden bench. On the right a long corridor goes away to the back, where a man comes running in at an open door. In the right centre are more figures. Panel, 14 inches by 19 inches. Sale. Nogaret, Paris, 1780 (999 francs, Paillet) noted by Ch. Blanc (ii. 18). In the collection of the late Maurice Kann, Paris. -+29. THE RECKONING. In the left foreground of a room a peasant sits, seen in full face. He wears] a cap, a pale-red doublet, and orange-coloured breeches. He holds a pipe in his right hand and a pair of tongs in his left. In front of him stands a jug. On the floor are some live embers. He turns his head to the right, as if listening to the three other men who sit on the right behind a table. The left-hand man of these three, turned three-quarters right, holds the reckoning in his right hand and reads it aloud with an angry face ; beside him to the right two other peasants look over at the paper. On the table are a bowl, a jug, and a white cloth. On the back wall to the left is a drawing of a head in profile to the left. [Possibly identical with 140^.] Signed with the monogram ; panel, io| inches by 8 inches. Sale. (Possibly) P. A. J. Knijff, Antwerp, July 18, 1785, No. 304 (zz florins 10, Huybrechts). In the collection of Adolphe Schloss, Paris. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 3. In the collection of the late Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907, No. I ; bought as a whole by the London dealers Duveen Brothers, August 1907. In the possession of the London dealers Duveen Brothers. 130. PEASANTS SMOKING AND WARMING THEM- SELVES AT AN INN. On the right is a group of four men. The right-hand man,"turned three-quarters left, sits reading a placard, and laughs. On a wooden bench in front of him are a charcoal pan, a pipe, and a plate. Behind him to the left is a second man, seen in full face, who is smoking ; his right hand rests on his hip and his left hand holds a clay pipe. He throws his head back and looks up, as he blows out a cloud of smoke. In front of him to the left a third man sits on a wooden bench, in profile to the right, with his left leg extended on the bench ; he lights his pipe. Near him to the left a large earthenware jug with a cover stands on the floor. Behind the second man's right shoulder is seen a fourth man. In the left foreground is a tub. At the back, before a blazing fire, two figures stand and two others sit.
