i JAN STEEN 161 614*7. A Cottage Room with many Persons. Signed in full ; canvas, 18 inches by 2ii inches. Sale. Amsterdam, October 16, 1837, No. 83 (20 florins, Smit). 614^. A Rustic Feast. W. 179. In the collection of Prince Esterhazy, Vienna, 1856 (Viardot, on the authority of Westrheene) ; possibly the picture in the Buda-Pest Museum (55>- 614^. A Rustic Feast. Sale. London, 1856 (106, Nieuwenhuys). 614^. An Interior with Peasants dancing. In the collection of Lord C. Townshend, London. Sale. J. Harris, London, 1872 (139 : 135., Brown). 614*. Peasants and other Persons in Front of a Cottage. Signed ; 18 inches by 14 inches. Sale. H. A. J. Munro, London, June I, 1878, No. 108 (199 : ios., Goupil. 614/1 An Interior with a Merry Company. 17 inches by 14 inches. Sales. Bredel, London, 1875 G66i : ios., Adams). Nieuwenhuys, London, 1886 (^147, Sedelmeyer). 615. A Rustic Feast. 43 inches by 66^ inches. Sale. Nieuwenhuys, London, 1886 (147, Sedelmeyer). 616. A Merry Company. Seventeen persons are assembled round a well-furnished table. On the right an old woman is cooking pancakes. In the foreground a man adjusts a new string on a violin. To the left is a pair of aged lovers, the woman in red, the man in blue. Signed in full in the left-hand bottom corner; panel, i6| inches by 22 inches. Sale. D. Sellar of London, Paris, June 6, 1889, No. 72. 617. A Dance in a Tavern. An old rustic couple dance to the music of a fiddler. Several couples seated round them look on and laugh. In the right foreground a dog is eating out of a dish. Canvas, 17 inches by 14 inches. Sale. A. Bahmer, Cologne, September 30, 1889, No. 129. 618. Peasants smoking and drinking. They sit at a round table covered with a green cloth. Among them is a young mother suckling her child ; she faces the spectator. Farther to the right a man is smoking at the hearth. In an adjacent room to the right a man and a woman are conversing. Signed in full on a cask to the left ; 21 inches by 27 inches. Sale. Hach, Munich, September 19, 1892, No. 199. VOL. I M
