xii ADRIAEN BROUWER 629 165*:. Skittle-Players. 9! inches by 13^ inches. Sale. Jacomo de Wit, Antwerp, May 15, 1741 (Hoet, ii. 40), No. 107 (57 ^^^ florins). 165^. Peasants playing at Skittles. Panel, 12^ inches by 17 inches. Sale. Van Lancker, Antwerp, May 23, 1769 (71 florins) noted by Ch. ^^ _ Blanc (i. 157). 165^0. Gamblers. A small picture. Mentioned in the inventory of Rembrandt's goods, taken at Amsterdam on July 25, 1656, No. 2. 165*. Peasants gambling. A small picture. Sale. Johan van Marsclis, Amsterdam, April 25, 1703 (Hoet, i. 70), No. 23 (62 florins). i65/ and g. Two Pictures of merry Peasants gambling and drinking. Panel, 13 inches by 12 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, July 16, 1819, No. 32 (60 florins 10, Gruyter). 1 6 5/2. Two Peasants seated at Play in an Inn. Panel, 12 inches by 14 inches. Sale. C. T. van Wijngaerdt and others, Amsterdam, November 7, 1893, No. 9. >6. PEASANTS FIGHTING IN THE OPEN. In the centre foreground, several peasants and women are round a table, on which lie cards and an overturned jug. In the immediate foreground a man, seen in full face, draws his knife : a woman, standing beside him to the right and screaming loudly, tries to stop him. He looks to the left at a seated man who has already drawn his knife, but is held back by his wife who clutches his hair. At the back are four other figures, two of whom are held by the hair. At the table to the right sits a laughing peasant in profile to the left, with two other figures and a child. In the right fore- ground is a sow with her young. On the left, behind the disputants, is a cottage, with a man at the door and another looking out of a window. In the right middle distance are two drunken peasants. Farther back, round a waggon, is a second group. In the extreme distance are houses to the right, a ruin, and a church to the left. [Compare 97, 102.] Traces of the monogram may be seen on a piece of wood to the right ; panel, 10 inches by 13! inches. Sale. Fraula, Brussels, August I, 1738 (48 florins, W. Lormier). In the collection of Willem Lormier, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 419) ; noted in his store-room catalogue of December 1754, No. 38. Sale. W. Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763 (Terw. 316), No. 39 (60 florins).
