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i JAN STEEN 159 604^. An Interior with Peasants. W. 312. 15 inches by 12 inches. Sale. David letswaart, Amsterdam, April 22, 1749, No. 90 (20 florins). 605. A Tavern Scene with Eleven Figures. 14! inches by 19 inches. In the collection of Hendrik van Slingelandt, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 408). 6o$a. A Rustic Family. W. 317. Very humorous and carefully executed ; a fine picture. 2o| inches by 18 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April 2, 1754, No. 23 (54 florins). 605^. Merry Rustics. W. 329. 24 inches by 21 inches. Sale. Arnoud Leers, Amsterdam, May 19, 1767, No. 57 (41 florins). 606. A Rustic Tavern. The peasants play, dance, and jest ; a fiddler plays to them. Humorous in composition and finely executed. Canvas, 17 inches by 19 J inches. Sales. Van Nispen, The Hague, September 12, 1768, No. 102 (70 florins, Verschuuring). Hendrik Verschuuring, The Hague, September 17, 1770, No. 165. 607. Peasants dancing in a Tavern. With other merry peasant men and women. Spirited in composition and finely executed. Panel, 8 inches by 9 inches. Sale. Daniel Marsbag, Amsterdam, October 30, 1775, No. 103. [Pendant to 836^.] 607*7. A Merry Company of Rustics. By Jan Steen, or in his manner. Canvas, 25 inches by 31 inches. Sale. P. Bout, The Hague, April 20, 1779, No. 18 (10 florins 5). 607/1. A Merry Company. W. 333. An interior. In the fore- ground a peasant woman is dancing. 8 inches by 9 inches. Pendant to "Peasants Quarrelling" (776*7). Sale. J. van Zurendaal, Leyden, January 15, 1785. 607*:. Peasants playing and smoking in an Interior. Canvas, 17^ inches by 14 inches. Sale. J. C. Werther, Amsterdam, April 25, 1792, No. 150. 608 and 609. Two Tavern Scenes. Merry peasants with girls divert themselves in dancing and carousing. Spirited in composition and delicately rendered. Panel, 8 inches by 9 inches. Sale. Jos. Valette and others, Amsterdam, August 26, 1807, No. 197 (71 florins 10).