602 ADRIAEN BROUWER SECT. Another copy, from the La Caze collection, is in the Valenciennes Museum, 1898 catalogue, No. 60 ; on panel, ^ inches by 17 inches. It is uncertain whether 145^ the same subject, is identical with one of these copies or not. In the collection of the Due d'Arenberg, Brussels, W. Burger's 1859 cata " logue, No. 9. -107. THE SMOKERS. On the left of a room a man sits on a chair ; he is turned to the right but looks at the spectator ; his left foot rests on a wooden stool. He holds his pipe in his mouth with his right hand, and has in his left a lighted splinter. On a wooden bench to the right lies a paper of tobacco. Behind him to the right sits another man, turned three-quarters left ; his lighted pipe is in his left hand ; his left elbow rests on the arm of his chair. He leans back his head and blows out a cloud of smoke. Between the two smokers is seen the head of a child. On the left behind the first man is a woman, turned three-quarters left with her head in profile. She holds a jug in her right hand and con- verses with another woman whose head is seen at the window on the left. Panel, 16 inches by 15^ inches. A replica is in the collection of the Duke of Wellington (117). A copy is in the Vienna Academy, 1900 catalogue, No. 888, presented by Count Lamberg in 1821 ; on panel, 17 inches by 14 inches. A second copy is in the collection of Prince Liechtenstein, Vienna ; not mentioned in the 1885 catalogue. In the collection of Count Esterhazy, Vienna, 1835 catalogue, p. 28, No. 53. In the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1906 catalogue, No. 593.
- e8. PEASANTS AT AN INN. At a table on the left are five
figures. The nearest peasant leans his head on his left hand and sleeps. To the right another man in profile to the left fills his pipe. Behind him to the left a third man, seen in full face, is singing ; he wears a tall hat and leans his head on his left hand. Beside him to the left is a fourth man, holding a large glass of beer in both hands, who watches him. In front of him to the left is the head of a fifth man singing, turned three-quarters right. In front of this group, to the left, sits a peasant, turned three- quarters right. His right knee, which is bare, drawn back, and his left leg is extended. His right elbow rests on his knee, and his right hand holds a pipe ; he has a second pipe in his mouth. In his left hand he holds a jug over his right hip. In the right foreground another peasant sits on a foot-warmer in profile to the right. He lights his pipe at a burning splinter which he holds in his right hand. Behind him to the right is a jug on a three-legged stool. In the right background are several peasants and women in front of a door, the upper half of which is open. An example of the early coloured period. [Compare 56, 102, 166.] Signed on the left at foot with the monogram ; panel, 10 inches by 14! inches. Exhibited at The Hague, 1890, No. 19. In the collection of A. Bredius, The Hague ; given by him to Kassel. In the Kassel Gallery, 1903 catalogue, No. 137.
