xii ADRIAEN BROUWER 631 round a half-tub standing on end, with cards and a cloth upon it, are three peasants fighting. One man sits, seen in full face, on a bench to the right. He rests his left hand on the bench, and with his right elbow pushes away his adversary. This man, standing to the left, grasps him by the hair with his left hand, and threatens to strike him with the jug that he holds up in his right hand. On the left, beside the tub, a third man sits in profile to the right. He looks as if he is about to take part in punishing the unfair player, and draws his knife. In front of the tub are a jug and a bowl. In the right background a man, seated before the hearth, looks round at the combatants. Another man has risen from his seat. A third figure is behind him to the right. Panel, io| inches by 13^ inches. In the Dresden Gallery, 1905 catalogue, No. 1059. 170. Peasants fighting in a Room. One man seizes by the throat another man who sits on a chair. By a tub on the right sit two other peasants who take a lively interest in the fight. Signed in the right at foot. The original is lost. Described from a copy on panel, 10 inches by 14 inches in the Gotha Museum, 1890 catalogue, No. 115. 171. Peasants fighting. Four or five figures. Signed with the monogram. In the collection of Victor de Stuers, The Hague. 172. CARD-PLAYERS FIGHTING. On the left of a room four peasants are grouped round a three-legged stool. The man on the right ducks down, looking to the front and shouting, as he draws his knife. Another man, behind him to the left, grasps the man's hair with his left hand and furiously threatens to strike him with the jug in his uplifted right hand. In the left foreground sits a third peasant ; he holds a knife in his right hand, which rests on the chair ; with his upraised left fist he threatens a fourth man. This man, standing on the right behind the first couple, also stretches out his left hand and draws his knife with his right hand. On a wooden bench in front are a jug, a cloth, and a pipe. On the floor lie cards and other things. In the right background steps lead up to the outer door, a which a peasant enters. [Pendant to 41^.] Panel, ii inches by 19^ inches. Engraved in aquatint by A. Schlicht ; etched by F. de Mare ; and litho- graphed by J. Wolffle. Described by Houbraken (i. 323), who says that Brouwer painted it at Amsterdam and sold it for 100 ducats to Sohier de Vermandois (see Introduc- tion, p. 558). In the collection of the Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm (who died in 1716), Diisseldorf (Houbraken ; Von Gool, ii. 564). In the Mannheim Gallery. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 879. 173. A PEASANT BRAWL. On the left of a room, near a cask, five peasants fight furiously hand to hand. The right-hand peasant shouts and draws his knife. A man standing behind him to the left seizes
