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3 i8 GABRIEL METSU SECT. 199. THE SLEEPING SPORTSMAN. Sm. 64. On a bench outside the door of an inn, facing the spectator, a tired sportsman sits fast asleep. He holds a pipe in his right hand ; his left rests on the side of the bench. He is well dressed, with a broad white collar and buff boots, the left one of which falls down his leg. A smiling woman with a broad white collar, a jacket trimmed with fur, an apron, and a white cap, stands on the doorstep to the left, holding a stoneware jug in her right hand and a glass in her left. In front of her stands a big setter dog. At the window, above the sportsman's head, a man in a broad-brimmed hat leans out ; he is about to grasp a dead cock which hangs from a tree. Beneath it, on a low wall, is a dead pheasant, with the sportsman's gun leaning against it. At the sleeper's side is a flagon. Above the door is an arch supported by a console. The figures are in sunlight. This is an excellent work. [Compare the style of 198.] Signed in full on the low wall to the right ; panel, 16 inches by 14 inches. Described by Waagen (ii. 159). Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1892, No. 95. Engraved by Pelletier. Sales. D'Orvielle, Amsterdam, July 15, 1705, No. 53 (210 florins). Amsterdam, November 23, 1729 (91 florins). L. Th. de Vogel, Amsterdam, October 20, 1794, No. i. Van Helsleuter (Van Eyl Sluiter ?), Paris, January 25, 1802 (12,001 francs). Cardinal Faesch, Rome, March 17, 1845, No. 135. In the collection of the Marquess of Hertford (bought for ^3000). Now in the Wallace collection, London, 1901 catalogue, No. 251. 200. A WOMAN HOLDING A JUG AND A GLASS. Sm. ii. A woman, seen to the knees, sits at a table covered with a Turkey carpet. She wears a dark brown jacket and bluish apron. She holds a glass in her left hand and a beer-jug with the lid raised in her right. On the table are a bottle and a pipe. In the background is a chimney-piece supported by a Caryatid. The woman seems to be looking at some one whose figure is no longer visible. In a copy in the Rutten collection at Liege, another figure is added, but this seems to have been taken from a picture by Jan Steen. Panel, ii inches by 10 inches. Pendant to "A Girl paring Apples" (125), also in the Louvre. Engraved by Daule, and by Oortman in the " Musee Fran9ais." Sale. (Probably) The Hague, July 15, 1749, No. 19 (68 florins) ; pendant to No. 1 8. Now in the Louvre, Paris, 1900 catalogue, No. 2462 (old No. 296) ; where it was in 1816 (Sm.). 201. THE OLD SMOKER. An old man, seen to the knees, sits to the right facing the spectator. He wears a grey felt hat having a turned-up brim lined with blue, a brown jacket, and knee-breeches. He has a short fair beard. He lights his pipe at a red charcoal-pan, and leans his head forward with a thoughtful air. The flesh-tones and the back-