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i JAN STEEN 203 a tavern. Among them is a drunken woman who is lifted into the boat by two men. Several persons are in the boat ; with them is a hog. "The picture abounds with low humour, and is one of the artist's dexterously painted pictures." Canvas, 34! inches by 46 inches. Sale. Edward Solly, London, 1837 (44: is.). 755*7. The Old Drinker. In a village inn a maid-servant offers an old man a glass of wine. Panel, 18 inches by I2| inches. Sale. P. A. Voget, Amsterdam, March 28, 1871, No. 197. 755/>. The Drunken Woman. At a table laid out for a meal sits a young woman, seen at three-quarter length. She wears a grey dress and brown jacket, and has her neck bare. She holds a stoneware jug in her left hand, and flourishes an empty glass in her right. Panel, 18 inches by 15 inches. [Pendant to 753^.] Sale. Wallis and others, Berlin, May 24, 1895, No. 107. 756. TWO PERSONS AT TABLE ASLEEP. It may be genuine, but is in a bad state of preservation, and has no great artistic value. Now in the Cavens collection, Brussels. 757. A GIRL ASLEEP AND A MAN SMOKING. This picture is almost identical with the Schubart picture (762), but is equally original. The woman at the back is younger, and holds a glass ; to her left is a dog. On the table lies a dark red cloak. To the right is a bed, to the left a door. Signed on a label high up on the wall ; panel, 15 inches by I2| inches. In the MacQueen collection, London. In the collection of the late Maurice Kann, Paris. 757*. A DRUNKEN WOMAN. A woman, holding a glass in her right hand and a jug in her left, has fallen asleep in her chair. A smile still plays over her features. On the left a man bends down to grasp her dress. In the background four men beside the hearth are laughing at the episode. Panel, 7^ inches by 9 inches. Now in the possession of the dealer F. Kleinberger, Paris. 758. A WOMAN ASLEEP AND A MAN SMOKING. Sm. Suppl. 43 ; W. 189. The woman sits asleep at a table, upon which her left arm rests ; her head has sunk to one side. Behind her on the right is a laughing man with a red cap ; he holds a clay pipe in his left hand and a glass of wine in his right. On the table are a large squat bottle, a plate, and a knife. At the back is the hearth ; a jug stands in a recess in the wall ; on the left is a press. It is extraordinarily delicate in expression, and very broadly rendered. It is one of the artist's best pictures. The colouring is restrained but beautiful. Signed in full in the right-hand top corner; panel, 15 inches by 12 inches.