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i JAN STEEN 205 762. A GIRL ASLEEP AND A MAN SMOKING. W. 462. The girl sits facing the spectator at a table on which her right arm rests. She is asleep, with her head on one side. A man behind her, with a cap on his head and a pipe in his left hand, blows smoke at her neck. Behind the table to the left stands a woman looking on with mingled pity and amusement. Signed in full ; panel, 14^ inches by 12 inches. Exhibited at Leipzig, 1889, No. 232. Sales. Van Kretschmar, Amsterdam, March 29, 1757, No. 23 (50 florins). Amsterdam, June 5, 1765, appendix No. 7 (35 florins). Fr. van der Velde, Amsterdam, September 7, 1774 (5 florins, Brown). Amsterdam, May 7, 1804, No. 149; given as a pendant to " The Oyster Feast" of the Van der Marck sale (855). In the collection of Prince zu Hohenzollern-Hechingen at LSwenberg. Sale. M. Schubart, Munich, October 28, 1899, No. 67 (18,000 marks, Helbing. Another version, slighter in style and weaker in colour, is in the possession of Thiem, San Remo. The woman at the back is here younger, and has a less humorous expression. Compare also the Kann picture (757). A copy has been exhibited at the Grafton Gallery, London. A picture of similar dimensions was in the sale, A. C. Putman, Amsterdam, August 17, 1803, No. 76 (40 florins 5, Reyers) ; but in the foreground there was a dog, which does not appear in other versions. 763. A MAN AND WOMAN ASLEEP AT A TABLE. On the table is a goblet of wine. It is probably genuine, but is in a bad state of preservation. 8| inches by n| inches. Sale. (The second) Raedt van Oldenbarnevelt, Amsterdam, April 15, 1902, No. 182 (60 florins). 764. A TAVERN SCENE. Sm. 67 and Suppl. 40 ; W. 305. At the open door in the background to the left a scolding woman holds a crying child by the hand. The husband, wrongly identified as the artist himself, whom the woman wishes to take home with her, stands hesitating in the centre of the room. His young son pulls him by the cloak. On the right are the merry company. Among them is a woman wearing a blue dress and red shoes, with a lute in her hands ; behind her is a fiddler. A stout peasant with a pipe is apparently Jan Steen himself. A woman standing up makes a scornful gesture at the old woman before the door. At the window in the background are two men grinning. On the left through the door are seen the roofs of houses. "This picture is a little too brown in colour, otherwise it is a masterly production " Signed in full ; canvas, 19^ inches by 16 inches. Exhibited at Diisseldorf, 1886, No. 317. Sale. P. J. F. Vranken of Lokeren, Antwerp, 1838, No. 73 (2175 francs, Chaplin). Now in the collection of Baron A. von Oppenheim, Cologne.