i JAN STEEN 201 748*7. A Landscape with a Drunkard. He is surrounded by his wife and children, who lead him home. The scene is most naturally rendered. Panel, 17 inches by 1 6 inches. Sale. De Brouwer, junior, Brussels, July 31, 1788, No. 45. 748^. A Drunken Peasant supported by his Wife. Panel, 7 inches by 4 inches. The dimensions are probably inaccurate, as the picture is apparently identical with that of the Buisseret sale (750). Sale. W. Wreesman Borghartz, Amsterdam, April n, 1816, No. 175 (77 florins, Gruyter, with pendant, " A Schoolmaster " [296]). 748^. A Country Inn. A woman and four men are talking and smoking. Panel, 9! inches by 8 inches. Sale. Paris, March 22, 1835, No. 39 (140 francs). 749. A Merry Drinker. He wears a cap and holds a large glass. A woman stands behind him with her finger raised in a warning gesture. On a stone table before him are a pie and a bottle of wine. Panel, 9^ inches by 8 inches. Sales. (Supplementary) Amsterdam, May I, 1849, No. 403. Amsterdam, October 18, 1849, No. 190. 750. The Drunkard. He sits on a chair near a cask, upon which lies his hat. In his left hand he has an earthenware jug, in his right a pipe. A woman stands behind him holding his head. Signed with the monogram on the cask ; panel, 7^ inches by 7 inches. A pendant to "The Boy Writing" of the De Jongh sale (390). Sales. D. de Jongh, Rotterdam, March 26, 1810, No. 39. Vicomte de Buisseret, Brussels, April 29, 1891, No. 109. 751. Return from the Fair. In the foreground of a broad land- scape, with houses and a village church tower decorated with flags in the distance, a woman leads her drunken husband over a bridge; their son laughingly tries to impede his stumbling progress. In front of them are a little girl riding on a hobby-horse and a dog. Signed in full; panel, 12^ inches by 16 inches. Sale. Wyl von Wymetal and others, Cologne, June 14, 1895, No. 225. 752. The Drinker. A man in blue sits by a cask holding a jug. Signed with the monogram; panel, 13 inches by io| inches. Sale. Arthur Kay of Glasgow, London, May n, 1901, No. 114. 752*2. An Interior with Smokers. Panel, 15 inches by 12^ inches. Sale. Corbett Winder^and others, London, June 17, 1905, No. 147. 753. THE DRUNKEN WOMAN. Under a large tree a drunken woman is led by two other women down a flight of steps. Her neck is
