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28 JAN STEEN SECT. Described by Reynolds. Exhibited at the British Caller)-, 1835. In the collection of Lady Cremorne, 1842 (Sm.). Probably identical with the picture described by Waagen (ii. 250) in the Rawdon collection. 75. The Story of Mithras (Ovid ?). Described by Houbraken (ii. 245-6), who blames the painter for the anachronism that he commits in introducing a pickled herring among the accessories. See Hofstede de Groot, " Quellenstudien," i. p. 1 68. 76. THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN. Sm. 197 ; W. 32. A wooded landscape with great trees here and there. Beneath a tree on the left a youth, with his back to the spectator, seizes a struggling girl who has fallen on her knees. At the back to the left another couple are prostrate on the ground. Beyond them again, a girl is climbing a tree ; her pursuer seizes her by the feet. In the right foreground scattered groups of men carry off Sabine women ; in the centre a weeping girl kneels on the ground. Signed in full ; canvas, 27^- inches by 36^ inches. Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1867, No. 186. Sales. H. A. Bauer, Amsterdam, September II, 1820, No. 122 (495 florins, Gruyter). W. Gruyter, Amsterdam, October 24, 1882, No. 107. F. H. Wente, Paris, February 22, 1893. Schonlank, Cologne, April 28, 1896, No. 172 (1410 marks, Schwartz). In the possession of the dealer F. Kleinberger, Paris. In the collection of W. Dahl, Diisseldorf. In the Preyer collection, Vienna, 1901 (according to A. Bredius) ; the collection was purchased by Senator Clark, New York, several years ago. 77. THE SATYR AND THE PEASANT "WHO BLOWS HOT AND COLD." Sm. Suppl. 44 ; W. 360. The peasant, wearing a slouch hat, sits facing the spectator at a table upon which are a yellow dish and a loaf. He is blowing upon his soup. The satyr on the left has risen and is about to go away. He leans with his right hand upon a guarded staff and raises his left hand in a warning gesture, to the effect that " he would not keep company with a man who blew hot and cold with the same breath." In the right foreground the peasant's wife, dressed in bluish grey, looks at the satyr in astonishment ; she is about to ladle soup into a bowl from a pot that stands on the floor. Behind her is a smiling old woman with a wooden bowl in her hand ; to the right are two children, one of whom holds a small bowl. A girl with a basket of fruit enters through the open door of the house. It is a well-preserved and carefully executed picture ; the colouring is very delicate, especially in the bluish-grey tones, with which the yellow of the dish and the yellowish hue of the satyr's flesh and of his cloak are made to harmonise. Canvas, 44 inches by 33 inches.