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134 JAN STEEN SECT. 498^. Twelfth Night. See W. 263. Sale. J. van der Blooken, Amsterdam, May 18, 1707, No. 21 (75 florins). 498^. Twelfth Night. Very finely rendered. Sale. Amsterdam, March 6, 1708 (Hoet, i. no), No. 3 (175 florins). 498*. Twelfth Night. See W. 263. Sale. Amsterdam, May 25, 1712 (Hoet, i. 143), No. 5 (180 florins). 498/1 Twelfth Night. Full of accessories ; very fine, and probably one of the most humorous of the artist's works. Sale. Cornelius van Dyck, The Hague, May 10, 1713, No. 39 (31 florins). 499. Twelfth Night. W. 261. [Probably identical with 4960 and 496.] 26 inches by 30^ inches. Sales. Seger Tierens, The Hague, July 23, 1743, No. 183 (115 florins). H. van der Vugt, Amsterdam, April 27, 1745, No. 174 (46 florins). Said to have been in the collection of J. Bisschop, Rotterdam (Hoet, ii. 530), acquired as a whole by Hope in 1771, but not traceable in this collection. 500. The Twelfth Night Feast. Panel, 33 inches by 35 inches. Sale. P. Bout, The Hague, April 20, 1779, No. 3 (42 florins.) 501. The Twelfth Night Feast. Twelve figures in an interior. Canvas, 26| inches by 13 inches (?). Sale. P. J. Geelhand, Antwerp, July 5, 1784, No. 59. 502. The Twelfth Night Feast. W. 262. A composition of seventeen figures in the open air. 41 inches by 58 inches. Sale. Leyden, 1789. 503. Twelfth Night. To the right a woman is opening oysters at a table ; a man offers an oyster to a woman. On the right also a woman is baking cakes. At a table sit various persons playing musical instruments ; the " king " drinks from a goblet. In the foreground are three children jumping over tapers, and other accessories. The scene is represented by candle-light, and with its varied illumination is attractive and pleasant in tone. Canvas, 25 inches by 31 inches. Sales. Amsterdam, August 10, 1785 (120 florins, Ten Kate). Amsterdam, July 13, 1790, No. 95. 503*. The Twelfth Night Feast. Sm. 79.; W. 259. The " king " drinks. Sale. Crawford, London, 1806 (41). 504. Twelfth Night. W. 263. Peasants and women sit round a table, upon which are gaufres. One man, with coloured paper round his