220 JAN STEEN SECT. 1 An old Fop between two Girls. They are at the fireside. A peasant looks on. It is transparent and warm in colour, and carefully and solidly painted. In the Bredel collection, London, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 290). 814^. The Courtship. With very natural details, in harmonious and somewhat restrained colouring. In the collection of Howard Galton, Hadzor, Droitwich, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 224). 814^. A Girl and a young Peasant They are seated at a table in a room. Panel, 15 inches by 12 inches. Sale. Ridder de Coninck de Merckem, Ghent, August 4, 1856, No. 60. 8147. A Love Scene. In a room a young man sits on a bench, holding a jug. He tries to hold a girl fast by the apron. She struggles to free herself, and points to an old man seated outside the door. [Compare 795.] 26^ inches by 23 inches. Sale. Paul van Cuyck, Paris, February 7, 1866. 8147'. A Proposal. Exhibited in Leeds, 1868, No. 610. Then in the possession of Robert Napier. 814^. The Love- Letter. Five figures. In grisaille. Sale. E. Purvis, London, 1875 (320 : 55., Agnew). 8147. A Soldier seated offers Money to a Girl bringing him Drink. Signed j panel, 14 inches by 12 inches. Sale. Nev. D. Goldsmid, Paris, May 4, 1876, No. 120. 815. A Love Scene. Sm. 69 and Suppl. 98 ; W. 79 and 357. Two young people sit on a bench before a cottage. A woman wearing a red dress with lilac sleeves lies on the grass ; she holds an empty cage in one hand, and in the other a lure from which a bird has escaped. Beside her is a boy with a flute j he wears a red cap and an orange-brown cloak. On the right are a leafy oak and a cottage. Signed in full on the ground to the right ; canvas, 25 inches by 31 inches. Sales. (Probably) H. ten Kate, Amsterdam, June 10, 1801, No. 147 (205 florins, Pruyssenaar) ; a sequel and pendant respectively to "Lovers under a Tree "(8 19) and "The Pet Pigeon" (811) in the same sale ; the dimensions agree, but the details are not given. Sir S. Clarke and G. Hibbert, London, 1802 (^105). H. A. J. Munro, London, June i, 1878, No. 106. Demidoff, San Donato, near Florence, March 15, 1880, No.
