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no JAN STEEN SECT. corner smoking his pipe. In the background is an open door. It is full of humorous expression. Signed in full ; panel, 15 inches by 14 inches. Compare the preceding picture. Described by Waagen (ii. 290). Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1894, No. 94. Sale. Marquess of Camden, London, 1841 (^231, Bredel). In the collection of Charles Bredel, London, 1 842 (Sm.). Sale. George Barclay Field, June 10, 1893, No. 34 (^724 : ios., Tooth). Now in the collection of Lord Swaythling, London. 422. THE VIOLINIST. The violinist stands to the left on a bench. It is a small and not especially notable picture. In the possession of the dealer Kleinberger, Paris, in March 1900 (A. Bredius). 423. A RUSTIC SERENADE. Sm. 13; W. 343. An evening scene. One man plays a hurdy-gurdy ; another plays a flute. A woman in a black cloak and yellow dress listens ; another woman offers a musician a glass of wine. A child sits on a flight of steps, blowing a trumpet. There is a fine landscape background, with a church -tower, in the distance. Panel, i8| inches by 13 inches ; the upper corners are rounded off. Sale. Amsterdam, September 17, 1766, No. 56 (345 florins). In the collection of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Paris. 424. THE SERENADE. W. 429. To the left is a house, on the first floor of which is one lighted window. Near the door, which is closed, stands a young woman singing to the accompaniment of her lute. Behind her are a young man who plays the flute, and a masked man who sings from a music-book, and upon whose towering headgear is a rat. On the right, opposite the door to which his figure is turned, a laughing man plays on the bass-viol. Behind this man probably Jan Steen himself are two other men in grotesque masks. In the left foreground a man rings the door-bell ; he holds in his right hand a light, which illumines the jovial company. Signed in full in the right-hand bottom corner; canvas on wood, 16 inches by 12^ inches. Sale. David letswaart, Amsterdam, April 22, 1749, No. 89 (13 florins). In the collection of Count Fries, Vienna. Now in the Rudolphinum, Prague, 1889 catalogue, No. 666. 424/7. A Hurdy-Gurdy Player. Sale. Amsterdam, April 9, 1687, No. 70 (91 florins). 424^. A Joyous Music-Party. Sale. Adriaan van Hoek, Amsterdam, April 7, 1706, No. 1 8 (145 florins). 424^. The Lute- Player. S^e. J. W. Sandra, Middelburg, August 3, 1713, No. 76 (2 florins).