r 6o 6 ADRIAEN BROUWER SECT. the right is the table. Behind this stands a smoker, who throws his head back and blows out a cloud of smoke. In front of him to the right a fifth peasant, leaning backwards to the left on the table, also throws his head back and blows out rings of smoke. In front of him to the right is the sixth peasant, seated on an upturned half-tub, and seen almost from the back but slightly turned to the left. He wears a broad-brimmed felt hat and holds a beer-glass in his left hand. He speaks to a beggar who appears at an open door at the back ; beyond the beggar are trees. Above the door hangs a drawing of an owl. In the right foreground, on a wooden stool, are a jug, a napkin, and a piece of cheese. Panel, 14 inches by io| inches. In the Electoral Gallery, Munich. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 887. -1*1. THE DRINKING PARTY. In a room three men and a woman sit round a cask with a board on it. On a wooden bench in front is a man, seen from the back ; his right leg rests on the bench and his right fist is on his hip ; he leans with his left forearm on the table. He wears a high fur cap, and has a knife in his girdle at the back. Behind him to the right a monk in a cowl sits on a half-tub. He throws his head back and shouts. On the left behind him is the head of a woman in a white cap. Near her to the left sits a toper, in full face, who lifts up a large glass full of liquor in both hands and shouts. On the left at the shorter side of the table the landlord, in profile to the right, stands putting down a fresh jug. On the floor in the right foreground is a tall and big jug. On the right is an open door scored with chalk. Panel, 14 inches by io| inches. In the Electoral Gallery, Munich. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 890. -T52. PEASANTS BY THE INN FIRE. In front of the hearth in the middle stands a peasant, facing the spectator, with legs wide apart. His hands are behind his back, and he wears a hat. He looks down to the right at a second man who sits on a wooden bench, seen from the back, and drinks from a glass. On the bench lie a cloak and a hat. On the left beside this man sits a third man, in profile to the left but with his head turned to the front. By the hearth to the left is a fourth peasant, having a jug on a wooden stool in front of him. In the right foreground is a jug. In the right background stands a man in profile to the right. Above the chimney-piece hangs a drawing of a head in profile to the right. Panel, 13 inches by 10 inches. In the Zweibrucken Gallery. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 895. 123. A RUSTIC COUPLE AT AN INN. On a bench in front of a wall to the left a woman far advanced in pregnancy sits facing the spectator. She holds a full glass of spirits in her left hand. She looks at the open right hand of the stout man who sits beside her to the right, with his left hand on his left knee. On the left, in front, is a wooden
