6 24 ADRIAEN BROUWER SECT head in profile is fixed, is a third peasant in brown, seen from the back : he has a knife in his girdle. In the right foreground is a table with a charcoal pan on it. The picture is somewhat hard, but is closely related to Brouwer. Signed on the partition with the monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 10 inches. Exhibited at DUsseldorf, 1904, No. 256. In the collection of Werner Dahl, Dtisseldorf ; but not in the sale. Sates. P*u Giersberg of Wesel, Cologne, April 16, 1907, No. 14. W. Schmidt, junior, Munich, December 10, 1907, No. 3. 1 58*. Smokers. A small picture. Brouwer in his later years painted a small picture of " Smokers " for Gijsbrecht van den Cruyse, Antwerp, according to Bode, Great Masters of Dutch and Flemish Painting, p. 277. 158^. A Crowd of Peasants smoking and drinking. At an inn. In the background is the landlady at an open door. Cardboard, 7^ inches by 6 inches. Sale. Count Ruffb-Bonneval de la Fare and others, Aachen, December 1 8, 1907, No. 9. 158^. At an Inn. In the left foreground are four men at a table. The nearest man rests his left leg on a bench ; his right leg is covered with a yellow cloak. He shows his teeth with a smile. In the right back- ground a man and a woman sit on a bench. Panel, 10 inches by 13^ inches. The original is lost. Described from the copy in the Dresden Gallery, 1772 inventory, No. A527 ; and 1905 catalogue, No. 1062 ; formerly catalogued as an original. 158^. Interior with Peasants carousing. Panel, n inches by 14^ inches. Sale. W. L. Redhead and others, London, July 23, 1909, No. 67. 159. CARD-PLAYERS. In the centre foreground of an almost empty room, five peasants are grouped round a table. The man on the left, seated in profile to the right, laughs and looks at his cards, which he shows to another man. Opposite him sits a man in profile to the left, wearing a large felt hat ; he holds his cards in his right hand and places his left hand on his breast. Between them, behind the table, is a third peasant, seen in full face with his head to the left ; he holds the handle of a jug in his right hand and supports the jug with his left hand. He looks to the left at a laughing head, above which is seen another head. Behind to the right is another group of two peasants. One sits on a half-tub on end, in profile to the right ; the other man's head alone is visible, in full face. In the left foreground is a wooden bench with a bowl on it. In the right background is the hearth. A man stands before the fire, in profile to the left. Behind him to the left a woman sits on a wooden bench, seen in full face ; she converses with him. In the remote back-
