584 ADRIAEN BROUWER SECT. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the collection of Adolphe Schloss, Paris. >2<r. An Old Woman and a Young Man reading. By lamp- light. Panel, io inches by 8 inches. Sale. P. J. de Marneffe, Brussels, May 24, 1830, No. 42. 62b. Peasants attentively reading Papers. This rare and better-preserved picture is especially precious for its wonderfully transparent colour. Panel, io| inches by 7^ inches. Sale. J. B. van Lancker, Antwerp, 1835, No. 41 (130 francs, Pardieu). A Merry Company of Peasants. One reads aloud. Panel, about 15 inches by 22| inches. In the Schloss Bellevue, Kassel, 1863 (Parthey, i. 204), but not now in the Kassel Gallery. 62^. Two Peasants. One reads a paper. The other makes a grimace. Two studies in the same frame. Panel, 5^ inches by 5| inches. Sale. A. Oudry, Paris, April 17, 1869, No. 2. f " 62<r. The Readers. Two peasants lean on a partition, reading a printed paper which one of them holds. Canvas, 6 inches by 6| inches. Sale. Wurster, Cologne, June 15, 1896, No. 41. 62/. The Reader. Two peasants sit on upturned tubs. One holds a printed paper. The other, with a jug in his hand, listens to the first man reading. At the back is a third peasant. Panel, 8J inches by 7 inches. Sale. F. R. von Berthold, C. G. Hartmann, D. P. Cepero, and others, Cologne, December 9, 1898, No. 21. 3. A Sleeping Peasant. In an interior. At the back other figures are at a table. A good little picture that is probably genuine. Panel, 15^ inches by loj inches. In the Sauvan collection. In the Avignon Museum, 1880 catalogue, No. 362. A BOOR ASLEEP. In front of a wooden partition on the right a peasant sits on a wooden block, facing the spectator ; his head is leaning back and he is asleep. He wears a light grey jacket and purple and light red breeches. The heel of his right foot rests on a small block, and the toe points upward. His right hand is thrust into his doublet. His left arm rests on a table with the hand hanging down. On the table are a jug and a glass ; another jug is on the floor, and a third hangs on the wall. In the left background are three other peasants carousing. Panel, 14 inches by io| inches.
