1 88 JAN STEEN SECT. 7130. An Interior with Peasants smoking. Panel. Sale. London, April 3, 1901, No. 153. 713^. A Man and a Woman before a Cask in an Interior. The man smokes ; the woman drinks. Panel, 1 1 inches by 9 inches. Sale. Hacker, Frankfort, April 26, 1901. 7i3<r. An Interior with Four Persons and a Dog. Panel, 32 inches by 26 inches. Sale. London, July 9, 1901, No. 356. 713^. A Man smoking. Panel, 9^ inches by 7^ inches. Sale. W. Boore and others, London, December I, 1902, No. 81. 713-?. Two Figures by Candlelight. 9 inches by 7 inches. Sale. P. H. Edlin and others, London, December 14, 1903, No. 102. 713/1 Figures in a Tavern. 24 inches by 20 inches. Sale. London, February 29, 1904, No. 58. 713^. Four Persons eating and drinking in an Interior. From the reproduction in the catalogue, the authenticity of this piece would seem very doubtful. Panel, 9 inches by 13 inches. Sale. Von Keller and others, Frankfort, May 17, 1904, No. 82. 714. THE READER. Seated to the left at a table in a tavern is a man, wearing a tall felt hat and a purple doublet with yellow sleeves. He isj turned to the right and reads aloud from a sheet of paper. Two peasants at the table, one of them wearing a fur cap and the other a felt hat, listen. On the left a man with a pipe in his hand stands beside the hearth. In the right background a peasant, going out at the door, pays his reckoning to a woman. The picture is not specially notable. Signed in full on the right j panel, I2| inches by 14 inches. Exhibited in Berlin, 1890, No. 278 ; in Dilsseldorf, 1904, No. 384. Sale. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 407 (14 florins, Spruyt). Formerly in the collection of Wilhelm Gumprecht, Berlin. Sale. Werner Dahl of Dilsseldorf, Amsterdam, October 17, 1905, No. 142 (2600 florins, F. Kleinberger). Now in the possession of the dealer F. Kleinberger, Paris. 715. A Tavern Scene. Sm. 195 ; W. 383. In the right fore- ground an elderly man looks with interest at a stout woman seated in a chair. At her side another stout woman stands, holding a jug and drinking a glass of wine. Farther back are four men ; two of them
