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DAVID TENIERS.
449
auction"with the unsold portion of the same Collection at Paris in
1837, and sold for the extraordinary sum of 18,900 fr.
Bought for Williams Hope, Esq.
131. The Backgammon Players. The principal group
consists of five artisans, grouped round a covered table. One
of the players, wearing a drab hat and a blue dress, is making
a move on the board, while his adversary and companions
are looking attentively on. A chair, with a jacket thrown
on it, and a jug placed on the ground, are near them; and
the landlord, dressed in a scarlet jacket, stands with his back
to the spectator, scoring up the reckoning. On the opposite
side lies a dog close to two billets of wood, and a stool with
a pot of embers on it. In the back of the room are two
boors at a fire, and a woman entering at a side door. A fine
and vigorous work of the master.
1 st. 6 by 2 st. 3.—P.
In the Royal Museum at Berlin. Worth 400 gs.
132. A Woman milking. The scene represents a Flemish
farm, and is distinguished from several other pictures of the
same subject by a woman in a scarlet jacket, seated with her
face to the spectator, ready to milk a black and white cow;
but her attention is at the moment directed to a young
shepherd who stands by, with a hoe in his hand, and his
dog by him. More to the right are a red cow and a group
of nine sheep ; and in a distant meadow is a herd of cows,
beyond which are some cottages on the acclivity of a hill.
A party of rustics, regaling near a cottage, are seen on the
opposite side. Painted in a clear and silvery tone of colour.
2 st. 2 by 2 st. 10.—C.
In the Collection of Lord Carington, of Wycomb Abbey.
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449
auction"with the unsold portion of the same Collection at Paris in
1837, and sold for the extraordinary sum of 18,900 fr.
Bought for Williams Hope, Esq.
131. The Backgammon Players. The principal group
consists of five artisans, grouped round a covered table. One
of the players, wearing a drab hat and a blue dress, is making
a move on the board, while his adversary and companions
are looking attentively on. A chair, with a jacket thrown
on it, and a jug placed on the ground, are near them; and
the landlord, dressed in a scarlet jacket, stands with his back
to the spectator, scoring up the reckoning. On the opposite
side lies a dog close to two billets of wood, and a stool with
a pot of embers on it. In the back of the room are two
boors at a fire, and a woman entering at a side door. A fine
and vigorous work of the master.
1 st. 6 by 2 st. 3.—P.
In the Royal Museum at Berlin. Worth 400 gs.
132. A Woman milking. The scene represents a Flemish
farm, and is distinguished from several other pictures of the
same subject by a woman in a scarlet jacket, seated with her
face to the spectator, ready to milk a black and white cow;
but her attention is at the moment directed to a young
shepherd who stands by, with a hoe in his hand, and his
dog by him. More to the right are a red cow and a group
of nine sheep ; and in a distant meadow is a herd of cows,
beyond which are some cottages on the acclivity of a hill.
A party of rustics, regaling near a cottage, are seen on the
opposite side. Painted in a clear and silvery tone of colour.
2 st. 2 by 2 st. 10.—C.
In the Collection of Lord Carington, of Wycomb Abbey.
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