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592 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 121). Engraved by Scott. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1815 ; at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1881, No. 109; and at the South Kensington Museum, 1891-97, No. 56. Sale. Gerard Braamcamp, Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, No. 279 (3510 florins, Jan Hope). In the collection of Thomas Hope, 1829 (Sm., who valued it at 840). In the collection of Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, Deepdene ; bought as a whole in 1898 by P. and D. Colnaghi and A. Wertheimer. In the collection of the late Alfred Beit, London. In the collection of Otto Beit, London. 1020. THE BREAKING-UP OF A COUNTRY FAIR. Sm. Suppl. 28. An open landscape. To the right is a river with houses amid trees on the banks. In the distance a church and village stand at the foot of a range of hills. On the left a number of peasants, some of whom have drunk deep in the inn, which is partly visible, prepare to return home. Four have quarrelled and fight on the road. Others still linger ; among a crowd in front of the inn a man in grey with a red cap and a sword at his side is amused at a party of eight peasants carousing. Farther back a half- drunken couple dance to the music of a bagpiper and a fiddler. Beyond these, a horse stands by a cart while an ass is lying down. On the road a woman lifts a drunken man who has fallen over two pigs ; another leads away her reeling husband. Men and boys bathe in the river. An "excellent picture" (Sm.). [Probably identical with 1024^.] Signed on a hay-barge with the full monogram, and dated 1653 ; panel, 27 inches by 43! inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1889, No. 73. In the collection of the Duchesse de Berry ; exhibited for private sale, London, 1834, and bought by Woodburn (^500). Sales. S. Woodburn, London, June 24, 185 3 (42 5, Norton). In the collection of R. Baillie Hamilton, London. 1021. PEASANTS MAKING MERRY. To the right is a view of a river. In the collection of C. T. D. Crews, London. 1022. A PARTY CAROUSING AND PLAYING MUSIC. Sm. Suppl. 152. To the left, under a vine trellis at the entrance to an inn, men and women are drinking. One man, half-reclining beside a woman in yellow, sings and accompanies himself on the fiddle. Another man courts a woman in dark green, who sits in an armchair, behind which a negro servant fills a wine-cup. Near the second man stands a third who invites him to drink without noticing that the girl who embraces him is stealing his purse. In the right foreground a dog barks at a woman who carries a child on her back and leads another. In the left background, near the inn door, are two musicians, one with a mandoline and the other with a horn. Near them a peasant converses with the host. A servant sets a pasty adorned with a swan on a well-furnished