_Jan Steen_ (Dutch: 1626-1679). _See 856._
Steen, though he loved scenes of rollicking conviviality and was fond
of sly humour, by no means confined himself to such moods. His brush
traced every episode of family life, and this little piece is as pretty
as one of the "Graces for Children" in Herrick's _Noble Numbers_:--
What God gives, and what we take,
'Tis a gift for Christ his sake;
Be the meal of Beans and Pease,
God be thanked for those and these.
This picture was formerly in the Leuchtenberg Collection at St.
Petersburg.