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40 JAN STEEN SECT. no. THE EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE. Sm. i ; W. 62. The artist has portrayed himself and his wife as they are dozing after dinner. The comely woman wears a red jacket trimmed with white fur and a blue silk skirt, and sits in the middle of the room. A girl is picking her pocket ; a boy exultingly displays a gold coin that he has stolen. The youngest child sits near a large window and aims a blow with a fiddlestick at a wine-glass placed on a chair before him. In the background a man hands money to a servant-girl. A dog is eating a cake on the table ; a cat springs up at a birdcage and has upset a china vase. Some food is burning in a pan at the fire j a monkey is reading a book. On the floor are a Chinese pot, a silver dish, a broken goblet, a fiddle, and a Bible. It is finely rendered. Canvas, 33^ inches by 42^ inches. Described by Blanc, Waagen, Nagler, and others. Sales. J. Danser Nijman, Amsterdam, August 1 6, 1797, No. 235 (700 florins). Sereville, Paris, January 21, 1812 (6853 francs). Due d'Alberg, London, 1817 (345 guineas). George Watson Taylor, London, 1823 (220 guineas). In the collection of William Beckford, Fonthill, in 1833 (Sm.) Sales. H. A. J. Munro, London, June I, 1878, No. 105 (1312:105., Graves). Tarral, Paris, January 27, 1887 (4100 francs). Now in the A. Schloss collection, Paris. in. THE EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE (or, The Dissolute Family). Sm. 136; W. 377. To the left, upon a terrace before a house, a drunken woman is dozing in her chair, with a pipe in her hand. A boy steals her money. In front of her a pig is eating frag- ments of food. A servant-girl kneels in the foreground, offering a glass of wine to a parrot. Near her are an overturned jug and a dish of grapes and other fruits. A boy is tempting a kitten to eat a pie which a girl holds out. .In the background to the right are a couple in the garden. Signed in full ; canvas, 43 inches by 54 inches. Imported into England by Chaplin from Amsterdam, 1829. Sale. T. Emmerson, London, 1832 (195 guineas). In the collection of H. A. J. Munro (Waagen, ii. 138), but not in the sale of June i, 1878. Sales. Brind, London, 1849. [See 113*.] J. Aronson, London, 1881 (325 : ios., Colnaghi). London, May 12, 1888, No. 54. D. Sellar, London, June 6, 1889. In the possession of the Paris dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1896, No. 45. ii la. The Dissolute Family ("Een bedurven huyshoudinge "). Sale. Amsterdam, September 24, 1686 (Hoet, i. 5), No. 6 (390 florins). i lib. The Dissolute Family. Skilfully composed. Sale. Amsterdam, May 18, 1706 (Hoet, i. 95), No. 17 (170 florins).