62 JAN STEEN SECT. the chair and bites the hand of the peasant, who seems to be crying aloud for imaginary pain. Four laughing peasants look in at the window. Signed in full in the left foreground; oak panel, 17^ inches by 14^ inches. Sale. Boymans, Utrecht, August 31, 1811, B. No. 97. Now in the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1902 catalogue, No. 280. 187. THE OPERATION ON THE EAR. A surgeon is operating on a man. A woman looks on. Signed in full in the bottom left-hand corner ; panel, 14^ inches by I j^ inches. Sale (probably). Corbett Winder and others, London, June 17, 1905, No. 57, measuring 14 inches by 10 inches. In the collection of Mr. Leigh Pemberton, Torry Hill, near Sittingbourne. 1 88. A Village Surgeon bandaging a Peasant. A peasant with a red cap has his left leg bandaged by a surgeon ; a woman stands near. Signed in full to the right ; panel, 9 inches by 7^ inches. Exhibited in Amsterdam, 1867, No. 189. Sales. G. Schimmelpenninck, Amsterdam, July 12, 1819, No. 116 (39 florins 10, Brondgeest). J. Meynders, Amsterdam, April 23, 1838, No. 41 (75 florins, Steffelaer). J. Slagregen and Roos, Amsterdam, August 19, 1856, No. 71. H. de Kat of Dordrecht, Paris, May 2, 1866. Baron W. C. P. van Reede van Oudtshoorn, Utrecht, April 14, 1874, No. 44 (310 florins, Rosmann). 1 880. Small Picture with a Doctor Scene. Sale. Amsterdam, April 6, 1695 (18 florins ; Hoet, i. 24, No. 50). i88. Small Picture with a Barber-Surgeon's Room. W. 269. Sales. Amsterdam, April 13, 1695 (24 florins 10 ; Hoet, i. 26, No. 31). Amsterdam, May 16, 1696 (52 florins, with another; Hoet, i. 37, No. 64). i88r. A Barber-Surgeon bandaging a Peasant. See W. 266. Sale. Amsterdam, April 20, 1701 (140 florins ; Hoet, i. 63, No. 24). 1 88^. A Sick Man. A small, very good picture. Sale. Amsterdam, March 25, 1728 (155 florins; Hoet, i. 322, No. 17). 1 88*. A Surgeon operating on a Patient's Palate. An excellent work. Sale. Amsterdam, March 25, 1728 (92 florins ; Hoet, i. 322, No. 18). 1 88/1 The Surgeon. A small, very good picture. Sale. Amsterdam, May 6, 1729 (81 florins ; Hoet, i. 337, No. 10).
