i JAN STEEN 137 Exhibited in Vienna, 1873, No. 151. A picture, identical in subject, but apparently somewhat larger (z6| or 28 inches by 23 or 24^ inches), was in the sales : Lemaitre, Paris, March 5, 1874, No. 42 ; and P. Tesse, Paris, March 1 1, 1876, No. 13 (see 511^). Sales. De la Court Backer, Leyden, August 9, 1766, No. 55 (400 florins, Palthe). De Burtin, Brussels, July 21, 1819, No. 160 (measuring 25^ inches by 22 inches). In the collection of the Due de Berry. Imported into England by Hume, 1840, and bought by Chaplin. Sales. Delessert, Paris, March 15, 1869, No. 86 (2200 francs). Lippmann von Lissingen, of Vienna, Paris, March 16, 1876, No. 40. In the possession of the dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, Paris (" Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1894, No. 44), and of the dealer F. Kleinberger, Paris. Now in the collection of the widow of M. de Weerth, Paris. . St. Nicholas's Day. Sm. 55. In a room are an elderly man, two women, and six children. The man sits sideways in an arm-chair, with a glass in his hand. One woman has a child at her breast ; the other stands and looks on with pleasure at the children who try to catch the fruit thrown to them by an old woman at an upper window. " Although this is a slight and hasty production, it abounds with natural and humorous expression." Panel, 27^ inches by 23 inches. Probably identical with the picture of the Lemaitre and Tesse sales (see 511). Formerly in the collection of Sir Charles Bagot (before 1833, Sm.). 512. ST. NICHOLAS'S DAY. W. 15. A young woman, seated on the right, stretches out her hands to a little girl, laden with cakes and other dainties, who will not give up any of her presents. Behind a table to the left is a weeping boy ; in front of him is a shoe with a rod. A maid-servant and a little boy stand near an old man, seated with a glass in his hand, who laughs at the weeping lad. Behind the father's back the grandmother holds up a coin to the lad as a consolation. In the foreground is a barking dog. Signed in full in the left foreground ; panel, 22^ inches by 19! inches. Sale. Boymans, Utrecht, August 31, 1811, No. C. 87. Now in the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1902 catalogue, No. 279. 512*7. St. Nicholas's Day. In the possession of G. Francken, Dordrecht, 1720. (Houbraken, iii. 17; see Hofstede de Groot, " Quellenstudien," p. 168.) 513. St. Nicholas's Day. With the whole family of Jan Steen. Finely composed and full of humour. 44^ inches by 39! inches. Sale. Johan van der Hulk, Dordrecht, April 23, 1720, No. 9 (400 florins). 514. St. Nicholas's Day. By Jan Steen and Brakenburg. 26 inches by 32 inches. Sale. Nicolaas van Bremen, Amsterdam, December 15, 1766, No. 42 (Hoet, ii. 487).
