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500 JAN STEEN.
68. The Game of Backgammon. The interior of a room,
in which are assembled seven persons ; among whom, and on
the left of the picture, is a fine comely serving woman,
wearing a scarlet jacket and a white apron ; her right hand
(containing a jug) is placed on her waist, and her attention is
directed to a gentleman, who, while paying his score, looks
earnestly in her face; an old woman stands by them. A
little retired on the right, are three gentlemen round a
table, playing at backgammon, and one of them is raising his
hat and scratching his head, as if puzzled in his game; the
remaining person stands under a projecting chimney.
\st. 71
In the possession of Mr. Baillie.
69. A Merry Fellow pulling the maid of the inn by the
skirt. See description, No. 127, Vol. iv, and for size read,
1# 6 by I# 31—C.
Purchased by Mr. Arteria with the Boursault Collection, for
Edmund Higginson, Esq.
70. The Drained Cask. This scene of fun and drollery
represents the interior of an estaminet, in the centre of which
is a young man carefully tilting a cask, while a maiden stands
by watching the operation : an old man seated on the right
appears to be deeply interested in what is going on, as are
also several boys behind him; the whole of whose counte-
nances depict the regret they feel at the approaching priva-
tion with which the position of the cask threatens them.
Behind the barrel on the left is a virago, whose uplifted hand
brandishes a shoe, threatening revenge on the authors of the
diminished liquor.
2 A 10 by 3 st. 4.—C.
Purchased by Mr. Arteria with the Boursault Collection, for
Edmund Higginson, Esq.
68. The Game of Backgammon. The interior of a room,
in which are assembled seven persons ; among whom, and on
the left of the picture, is a fine comely serving woman,
wearing a scarlet jacket and a white apron ; her right hand
(containing a jug) is placed on her waist, and her attention is
directed to a gentleman, who, while paying his score, looks
earnestly in her face; an old woman stands by them. A
little retired on the right, are three gentlemen round a
table, playing at backgammon, and one of them is raising his
hat and scratching his head, as if puzzled in his game; the
remaining person stands under a projecting chimney.
\st. 71
In the possession of Mr. Baillie.
69. A Merry Fellow pulling the maid of the inn by the
skirt. See description, No. 127, Vol. iv, and for size read,
1# 6 by I# 31—C.
Purchased by Mr. Arteria with the Boursault Collection, for
Edmund Higginson, Esq.
70. The Drained Cask. This scene of fun and drollery
represents the interior of an estaminet, in the centre of which
is a young man carefully tilting a cask, while a maiden stands
by watching the operation : an old man seated on the right
appears to be deeply interested in what is going on, as are
also several boys behind him; the whole of whose counte-
nances depict the regret they feel at the approaching priva-
tion with which the position of the cask threatens them.
Behind the barrel on the left is a virago, whose uplifted hand
brandishes a shoe, threatening revenge on the authors of the
diminished liquor.
2 A 10 by 3 st. 4.—C.
Purchased by Mr. Arteria with the Boursault Collection, for
Edmund Higginson, Esq.