xii ADRIAEN BROUWER 601 sit with a woman at a table, singing and drinking beer. This is very closely related to the early pictures. It forms a transition from the Amsterdam pictures (102, 166) to the pictures at Munich (119-123). Very rich in colour. Panel, 14 inches by II inches. In the Besai^on Museum, 1886 catalogue, No. 47. 105. PEASANTS DRINKING IN A FORTRESS. On the left a man, seen from the back, sits on a bench at a table. He wears a felt hat and a buff coat. To the right is an upturned cask with a stick. On the bench to the left of it is a jug. On the left, by the table, stands a peasant in profile to the right. Behind the table three peasants sit on a bench, seen in full face ; one of them holds a glass. A fence separates the scene from an open closet in which is a peasant. In front of it stands another peasant, seen from the back. Beyond the fence is a high wall with two figures. To the right is the roof of a house. Signed in full ; panel, 10 inches by 8 inches. The subject, in slightly varying dimensions, occurred in the following : Sales. Antwerp, May 31, 1768 (Terw. 660), No. 13 (135 florins) measuring 8^ inches by 6^ inches. J. F. Wolschot, Antwerp, September i, 1817, No. 73 measuring 8^ inches by 7 inches. Deweerdt, Antwerp, November 6, 1871, No. 166. Probably the picture described by Houbraken (i. 330). Sales. Rotterdam, 1835. Ridder de Coninck de Merken, Ghent, August 4, 1856, No. 12. Vicomte du Bus de Gisignies, Brussels, May 9, 1882 (Brussels Museum). In the Brussels Museum, 1906 catalogue, No. 77. K>6. PEASANTS AT AN INN. In the left foreground is a group of five peasants. One sits on a half-tub, in profile to the right, filling a pipe which he holds in his right hand. In front of him is a foot-warmer on which is a paper of tobacco ; on a stool farther to the right are a jug, a candlestick, and a cloth. Behind him to the right sits a man smoking, seen in full face ; he holds his pipe in his right hand. On the left, beside and behind him, are two peasants singing. One of them, in profile to the right, holds a beer-glass in his right hand ; the other, in full face, raises his right hand and cracks his fingers in time to the song. In the corner on the extreme left sits a man with a red cap, in full face. In the right fore- ground a man stands by a post, in profile to the right ; his right hand is lifted and pressed against the post. At the side to the right a little girl goes out at a door. In the centre at the back are four peasants and a woman before the fire. On the chimney-piece hangs the drawing of a head in profile to the right. Signed at foot on the post with the monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 16 inches. A replica is in the Dulwich College Gallery (in). A copy is in the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 949 ; it was transferred from panel to canvas in 1821, and measures 13^ inches by 18 inches ; it was acquired by the Empress Catherine II.
