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320 GABRIEL METSU SECT. 203^. A Tavern Scene. On the right sits a young man lighting his pipe ; a woman offers him drink. Panel, 14^ inches by 12 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1879, No. no ; then in the collection ofS. Sandars. Possibly identical with 178 or 171. 203*. An Officer reading and a Trumpeter. An officer sits to the right at a table reading a paper. Opposite him stands a trumpeter. Above is a blue drapery. At a staircase at the back stands a sentry ; behind him through an open door are two soldiers. 30 inches by 26 inches. From the description the picture would seem to be by Ter Borch. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1880, No. 84 ; then in the collection of John W. Prout. 203/1 The Guardroom. Two soldiers sit smoking at a table to the right ; one of them sits on an overturned basket. In the centre is a young officer with a yellow doublet and long red boots with the tops turned down ; his cloak hangs on his chair. He drinks from a tall glass to the woman who stands behind him with a jug in her hand. Beside him to the left is a brown and white dog ; some cards lie on the floor. Panel, 19^ inches by 20 inches. In one copy of the sale catalogue the name Metsu is struck out and that of Symon Kick substituted. Sale. F. Zschille, Cologne, May 27, 1889, No. 65 (360 marks, Baron von Pollschutz.) 203^. A Peasant seated, asleep. Panel, 15 inches by 13 inches. In the collection at Soder, Hanover, sold 1859 (Parthey, ii. 113). 203^. A Man holding a Jug. Signed ; panel, 5 inches by 3^ inches. Sale. P. A. Voget, Amsterdam, March 28, 1871, No. 108. 2031. Interior with Five Persons smoking and drinking. Sale. London, April i, 1896, No. 59. 204. THE CARD-PLAYERS. In a room with a staircase leading to an upper storey sits an old officer at a table with a red cloth. He wears a broad-brimmed hat with red and white plumes, a black costume, with a red scarf and red stockings. Opposite him sits a young lady in a yellow dress and jacket trimmed with white fur. They are playing a game of cards ; the officer is just leading. A page hands the lady a clay pipe. On the floor near the stove at the back lie a blue and white shawl, a trumpet, and a cuirass. The picture must once have been very good and charac- teristic, but it is now a mere wreck. [Compare the style of this work with that of 219 and 220.] Signed in full in the window to the left ; panel, 26 inches by 23 inches.