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JAN STEEN.
100. The Roman Deputies inviting Cincinnatus to take
the command of the army. The subject is composed of
eighteen figures, and the noble Roman and his wife, with a
child in her arms, are seated at a little table in a humble
apartment. The former appears to have been taking his
frugal repast, when the deputies entered; one of them is
bending before him, with a present of a gold vase, pointing
at the same time to another in a similar position, bearing a
bowl of jewels and money in his hands. The eldest daughter
of Cincinnatus is seen on her knees, baking cakes; behind
her is a half-clad boy eating a turnip, and two other children
are by the mother.
1st. 11 by 2 ft. 8.—P.
Collection anonymous, by Foster and Son, 1833. 28 <7$.
101. A Mountebank dilating on the virtues of his drugs.
The subject is introduced on the foreground of a landscape
in the vicinity of a village ; and the charlatan, habited in a
suit of black, is mounted on a stage on the left of the pic-
ture, holding a bottle of elixir in his hand, which a woman
is about to pay for. He is attended by a merry fellow who
sits by him, strumming on a fiddle; and behind him is an
elderly man waiting, hat in hand, to consult him. Among a
great number of persons who surround the stage, may be
observed a man with a child in his arms, a farmer on a grey
horse, an old man leaning on a stick, speaking to a woman
with a milk-can on her head, and a woman wheeling a sick
man in a barrow.
2 st. by 2 st. 8.-—C.
Bought in exchange of Charles Heusch, Esq. by Messrs. Smith.
102. A Twelfth-Night Scene. The subject is composed
of about ten figures, and the jolly king for the evening sits
at the head of a table, quaffing a goblet of wine ; at the same
JAN STEEN.
100. The Roman Deputies inviting Cincinnatus to take
the command of the army. The subject is composed of
eighteen figures, and the noble Roman and his wife, with a
child in her arms, are seated at a little table in a humble
apartment. The former appears to have been taking his
frugal repast, when the deputies entered; one of them is
bending before him, with a present of a gold vase, pointing
at the same time to another in a similar position, bearing a
bowl of jewels and money in his hands. The eldest daughter
of Cincinnatus is seen on her knees, baking cakes; behind
her is a half-clad boy eating a turnip, and two other children
are by the mother.
1st. 11 by 2 ft. 8.—P.
Collection anonymous, by Foster and Son, 1833. 28 <7$.
101. A Mountebank dilating on the virtues of his drugs.
The subject is introduced on the foreground of a landscape
in the vicinity of a village ; and the charlatan, habited in a
suit of black, is mounted on a stage on the left of the pic-
ture, holding a bottle of elixir in his hand, which a woman
is about to pay for. He is attended by a merry fellow who
sits by him, strumming on a fiddle; and behind him is an
elderly man waiting, hat in hand, to consult him. Among a
great number of persons who surround the stage, may be
observed a man with a child in his arms, a farmer on a grey
horse, an old man leaning on a stick, speaking to a woman
with a milk-can on her head, and a woman wheeling a sick
man in a barrow.
2 st. by 2 st. 8.-—C.
Bought in exchange of Charles Heusch, Esq. by Messrs. Smith.
102. A Twelfth-Night Scene. The subject is composed
of about ten figures, and the jolly king for the evening sits
at the head of a table, quaffing a goblet of wine ; at the same