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212 JAN STEEN SECT. the foreground are scattered pots. The picture is genuine, but much damaged. Signed in full ; panel, 15 inches by 12 inches. Sales. Amsterdam, May 14, 1839, No. 94 (56 florins, Woodin). Van den Bogaerde of Heeswijk, 'S Hertogenbosch, June 19, 1900, No. 162, and September 23, 1902, No. 52. 784. PEASANTS QUARRELLING. A quarrel has arisen out of a game of cards. One player, armed with a sword, is held down on the ground by a peasant, who threatens him with a jug, but is seized by another man. A peasant seated in a chair makes a threatening gesture with a knife. Another combatant comes down a staircase. Signed; panel, 12 inches by 15! inches. Sales. N. Doekscheer, Amsterdam, September 9, 1789, No. 47 (64 florins, Van der Heuvel). Amsterdam, September 21, 1904. 785. MARAUDERS ATTACKING PEASANTS. Sm. 137 ; W. 83. In front of a tavern soldiers are fighting with peasants. In the foreground lie two priests. One has fallen down with his Bible in his arms, while his cross is on the ground j the other kneels and stretches out his hands imploringly to a horseman who is about to cut down a peasant rushing forward with a flail. In the midst of the group is a woman with woe-begone face ; a child clings to her. On the right a shrieking woman is roughly seized by two soldiers. A youth leads away from the house- door an ox, upon which a laughing man lays a counterpane. In the background are burning houses, the flames from which light up the scene. A tablet hanging from a tree is inscribed, " Sauegarde van den Duyuel " (" Protection from the devil"). " Painted in a free and masterly manner" Signed in full on the tablet under the inscription ; canvas, 34^ inches oy 56^ inches. Exhibited in Manchester, 1857, No. 934. Sales. J. van der Marck, Amsterdam, August 25, 1773, No. 305 (150 florins, Yver). J. Verkolje, Rijnzaterwoude, July 14, 1828, No. 86. In the collection of Peter Norton, London, 1833 (Sm.). Sales. De Beurnonville, Paris, May 9, 1881, No. 481. Dittmar van de Vliet, Berlin, May 4, 1897, No. 164. In the possession of F. H. Wente, Amsterdam, and exhibited in the Rijks- museum, Amsterdam, 1905 catalogue, No. 2249. 786. MARAUDERS ATTACKING PEASANTS. Sm. 160 ; W. 99. In front of the ruins of a building, perhaps a monastery, the inhabitants are fighting desperately with marauding soldiers. A peasant wishes to attack the soldiers with a pitchfork, but is held back by his wife and son. The marauders commit all kinds of lawless deeds. Two monks, who are eating and drinking, try to restore peace. It is very carefully executed. Signed in full in the right-hand bottom corner ; panel, 2o| inches by 20 inches.