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JAN STEEN.
by two children who stand at a little table on the right, blow-
ing soap bubbles. A jug, a goblet, and some bread and
cheese, are still on the table, from which a servant is retiring
with something in her hand. Painted in a fine masterly
style.
2 st. 1| by 2 st. 9.-C.
In the Collection of EE. A. J. Munro, Esq.
95. St. Nicholas’s Day. Children scrambling for fruit.
This picture very nearly corresponds with No. 55, Vol. iv.,
but is very superior to that in quality, and consists of eleven
figures instead of nine. In the centre sits a young woman
in an antique chair, holding a child upright on her lap, who
is much delighted at seeing four children scrambling for
apples, which an old woman is throwing from an upper win-
dow into the room, and two of these young ones are strug-
gling together on the ground ; a man with a pipe in his hand,
and a young woman, stand by the chimney observing the fun.
On the opposite side are the grandfather, and mother of the
family.
IA by 1A 8.—P.
Formerly in a small Collection belonging to the Due de Berri.
Imported by Mr. Hume, 1840, and bought by Mr. Chaplin.
96. A Skittle-Ground. This excellent picture exhibits a party
of three men assembled near the middle of a skittle-ground,
one of whom, stripped to his shirt, is in the act of bowling,
while a person having the appearance of the village curate, is
looking on; to the right is a woman seated with a child in her
arms, buying some nuts of a man with a basket; and more re ¬
mote is a woman drawing water at a well situate adjacent to a
cottage. Among a number of persons reposing on the ground
in the left of the scene, may be noticed the artist enjoying
his pipe; beyond these is the alehouse. The more distant
country is partly enclosed with palings; near this fence are
JAN STEEN.
by two children who stand at a little table on the right, blow-
ing soap bubbles. A jug, a goblet, and some bread and
cheese, are still on the table, from which a servant is retiring
with something in her hand. Painted in a fine masterly
style.
2 st. 1| by 2 st. 9.-C.
In the Collection of EE. A. J. Munro, Esq.
95. St. Nicholas’s Day. Children scrambling for fruit.
This picture very nearly corresponds with No. 55, Vol. iv.,
but is very superior to that in quality, and consists of eleven
figures instead of nine. In the centre sits a young woman
in an antique chair, holding a child upright on her lap, who
is much delighted at seeing four children scrambling for
apples, which an old woman is throwing from an upper win-
dow into the room, and two of these young ones are strug-
gling together on the ground ; a man with a pipe in his hand,
and a young woman, stand by the chimney observing the fun.
On the opposite side are the grandfather, and mother of the
family.
IA by 1A 8.—P.
Formerly in a small Collection belonging to the Due de Berri.
Imported by Mr. Hume, 1840, and bought by Mr. Chaplin.
96. A Skittle-Ground. This excellent picture exhibits a party
of three men assembled near the middle of a skittle-ground,
one of whom, stripped to his shirt, is in the act of bowling,
while a person having the appearance of the village curate, is
looking on; to the right is a woman seated with a child in her
arms, buying some nuts of a man with a basket; and more re ¬
mote is a woman drawing water at a well situate adjacent to a
cottage. Among a number of persons reposing on the ground
in the left of the scene, may be noticed the artist enjoying
his pipe; beyond these is the alehouse. The more distant
country is partly enclosed with palings; near this fence are