636 ADRIAEN BROUWER SECT. Signed with the monogram ; panel, io| inches by 8 inches. Saks. J. Casterman and others, Antwerp, July 19, 1858, No. 32. Wurster, Cologne, June 15, 1896, No. 40. 178. Men fighting. Two card-players have come to blows. A third man tries to pacify them. On a staircase at the back is the land- lord holding a pair of tongs. Panel, 14 inches by i6 inches. S a lf, Brade and others, Cologne, December 17, 1897, No. 201. 178*7. Anger. A peasant shows a woman his fist. She shows him her tongue. The peasant is like the man in the picture called "The Bitter Medicine." [Compare 21.] Panel, 8 inches by 7^ inches. Sale.}. L. Menke, Brussels, June I, 1904, No. 8. 178^. Peasants fighting over Dice. One man brandishes a beer-jug. The other has struck him on the knee. A third man tries to stop the fight. Panel, 12 inches by 10 inches. Salt, Wilhelm Sohn and others, Aachen, March 25, 1908, No. 4. 178,. A Fight The composition is preserved in a probably original drawing by Brouwer in the Dresden Print-room ; see Bode, Great Masters of Dutch and Flemish Painting, P- 277- 178^. The Jealous Peasant. Sale. P. P. Rubens, Antwerp, May 1641, No. 276 (Sm. Suppl. 364). 179. An Inn with Seven Figures. In front are two smokers at a wooden table, at which a peasant sleeps, leaning on his elbows. Behind them a peasant fondles his child. Farther back two peasants converse. Much richer than similar scenes, and naively truthful. Panel, 7 inches by io inches. Sale. G. F. J. Verhulst, Brussels, August 16, 1779, No. 85. 1 80. Interior of a Cottage. A man and a woman sit at a table in the background. In front, on a bench, are a pot and several earthen- ware jugs. Vigorous brushwork. Panel, 9 inches by 7 inches. Sale. Marquis de Menars, Paris, end of February 1782, No. 28. iSoa. A Beggar asking an Alms. Copper, 4! inches by 3! inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April 16, 1792, No. II (4 florins, Yver). 1 8 1. A Smoker. Part of a picture in six panels; the others were by A. Bloemaert (" Heraclites " and " Democritus "), by Pieter Quast ("Om de winst is't te doen," or "It is to be done for gain"), by Rubens (a sketch of Hercules carrying the globe), and by A. Brouwer (a in jo /i j " Topers ).
