i JAN STEEN 59 costume and a black cloak, and has his hat on his head. He bends down to feel the girl's pulse. On the other side of the group stands a middle- aged woman, who appears, by the movement of her arm, to be addressing the physician. On the wall hangs a picture of Venus and Adonis. Panel, 17^ inches by 14-^ inches. Sold by Messrs. Smith to William Theobald, 1842. Sale, Theobald, London, 1851 (58 : i6s.). 176. The Physician's Visit. Panel, 13 inches by 10 inches. Sale. London, June 20, 1903, No. 146. Compare, as pictures of a moralising tendency also, " The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus," in the Hoogendijk collection (58), with the inscription, "In Weelde ziet toe"; the illustration of the proverb, "So gewonnen, so verteerd " (" Lightly come, lightly gone ") in the pictures of oyster-feasts (854); and the "Marauders attacking Peasants," with the inscription, " Sauvegarde van den duivel " (785-6). 177. THE ITINERANT QUACK DOCTOR. Sm. 47 and Suppl. 33 ; W. 5. Beneath a great tree the quack doctor stands on a wooden platform, approached by a flight of steps. He shows the astonished crowd a molar tooth which he has just extracted from the mouth of a peasant who is bound to a chair. The patient is held fast by a laughing man, while an old woman seems to be operating further on his neck. Among the spectators are a boy on a donkey and a stout man with a slouch hat. In the background is a church among trees. To the right stands a table with bottles and glasses. In the foreground a woman is wheeling in a barrow her husband, who has a glass in one hand and a jug in the other. Near them is a dog. Upon a beam in the upper right-hand corner sits a monkey with a pipe. Signed in full on a bench to the left; oak panel, 15 inches by 20^ inches. Described by Ch. Blanc. Sales. The Hague, July 15, 1749 (97 fl" ns W. Lormier). W. Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763 (Hoet, ii. 439), No. 252 (420 florins, purchased for William V.). In the cabinet of the Stadtholder William V. (Terw. p. 330, No. 252). In the National Museum at The Hague, 1808. Now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1903 catalogue, No. 2241. 178. THE ITINERANT QUACK DOCTOR. W. 148. Beneath a great tree stands the quack doctor, having in front of him a board placed on a cask, upon which are ranged his drugs and pots. He commends his wares to a peasant with bandaged arm and stick in hand, who stands before him. A woman is counting out her money to make a purchase. Other persons are behind her. In the left foreground is a boy with a slouch hat and one stocking slipping down ; his back is turned to the spectator. In the background is a house among trees. To the left, on the trunk of the great tree, is an octroi notice with a black seal.
