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230 JAN STEEN SECT. Sales. Tibout Regters, Amsterdam, April 18, 1768, No. 9. J. Witsen, Amsterdam, August 16, 1790, No. 61 (62 florins, Spaan). J. Bleuland, Utrecht, May 6, 1839, No. 308. D. Vis Blokhuyzen of Rotterdam, Paris, April I, 1870, No. 69 (425 francs). 848. A Scene in a Brothel. Sm. 127 and Suppl. 69; W. 96. A merry young man, sitting in the middle of a room, seizes a girl by the skirt as she passes him. The incident attracts the attention of another young man who sits at the side filling his pipe, and of an older man who stands behind him holding a tankard ; a boy is near a window in the back- ground. Panel, 18^ inches by 16 inches. Sales. E. W. van Dishoelq The Hague, June 9, 1745, No. 77 (87 florins). Paris, 1825 (1410 francs). In the Boursault collection, bought by Arteria for Edmund Higginson, Saltmarsh Castle, before 1842 (Sm.). Sale. Edmund Higginson, 1860 (137 : us.). 848*7. Bad Company. 14 inches by 16 inches. Sale. A. Levy, London, 1876 (997 : ios.). [Identified in Redford's "Art Sales" with the picture of the Cape sale (835), now in the Louvre, but this measures 16^ inches by 12^ inches.] 849. The Gallant Officer. He sits on a chair, courting a maid- servant, and laughingly offers her a coin. He wears a grey felt hat with turned-up brim, a broad collar, a black silk overcoat, a doublet with yellow sleeves, and red stockings. The girl is dressed in a red jacket, a grey skirt, and a white apron ; she gently declines the officer's pressing atten- tions. In her hands she holds a glass of wine and a bottle. Panel, 14 inches by n inches. Sales. Neville D. Goldsmid, Paris, May 4, 1876, No. 120. Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, May 9, 1881, No. 483. 849*7. Bad Company. 1 8 inches by 23! inches. Sale. De Zoete, London, 1885 (1428, Colnaghi). 850. MERRY COMPANY. At a table with a red cloth in the foreground is a woman asleep. Near her is an old man holding a glass of wine. On the right near a green-covered chair stands a young man pouring out wine for a girl. In the left background a bagpiper converses with two couples near a bed. The picture is much damaged, but genuine. Panel, 1 8^ inches by 22 inches. Exhibited by Rupprecht's successors, Munich, 1889, No. 121. Sale. H. Th. H5ch, Munich, September 19, 1892, No. 201. 851. THE CAVALIER ROBBED. On the paved floor of a room lies a drunken cavalier, with his head in the lap of a girl seated on the bed. She is trying to sew the man's hair to the pillow. On the left