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ii GABRIEL METSU 267 Described by Waagen (Supplement, 318). Exhibited in Leeds, 1868, No. 749. Sales. Gaignat, Paris, December 1768 (1363 francs). Paillet, Paris, January 30, 1782 (962 francs). In the collection of J. M. Heath, 1857 (Waagen). 41. A Woman seated at her Stall selling Oysters. Sm. 90. Panel, about 15 inches by 12 inches. Exhibited in the British Gallery, 1819. In the collection of the Rev. W. Long, 1833 (Sm.). 42. THE POULTRY DEALER. Sm. 80 and Suppl. 21. In the foreground to the right, in front of a house, sits a woman selling poultry at a stall. A maid-servant, standing to the left, holds out in her left hand a silver coin for a plucked cock on the stall ; on her right arm she carries a wooden pail. In the right foreground is a basket, upon which is a tray containing a dead fowl. A brown and white dog puts his fore-paws on a bench to sniff at the fowl. On the wall in the right foreground hangs a hare. In the left middle distance a bridge leads over a canal, with houses beyond. It is an excellent work. Signed in full on the stall; canvas on panel, 16 inches by 13! inches. Engraved in the " Musee Fran^ais." Sales. (Probably) Pieter van der Lip, Amsterdam, June 4, 1712, No. 14 (214 florins). (Probably) Gerbrand Pancras, Amsterdam, April 7, 1716, No. 10 (181 florins). (?) Adriaan Bout, The Hague, August n, 1773, No. 63 (600 florins). (?) Amsterdam, August 10, 1785, No. 211 (530 florins); this agrees exactly in subject and approximately in size with the above, according to the sale catalogue. In the chief Hessian inventory of 1749, No. 46. In the collection at Schloss Altstadt, Kassel, 1783, No. 71. In the Louvre, Paris, from 1806 to 1815, and then restored to Hesse- Kassel. Now in the Picture Gallery, Kassel, 1903 catalogue, No. 299 (formerly No. 272). 43. THE MAN SELLING POULTRY. Sm. 109. In front of a church to the left sits an old man under a tree, selling poultry. He turns to the right and holds out in both hands a live white cock towards a young woman who stands opposite him examining the bird. She wears a pale yellow satin gown, a red jacket trimmed with white fur, and a white apron. Between them is a dog. On the right is the Amsterdamer Gracht. Signed in the left centre " G. Metsu, 1662"; panel, 24! inches by 1 8 inches (pendant to 44). Sale. Jacob Cromhout and Jasper Loskart, Amsterdam, May 7, I79> No. 14 (400 florins). In the Royal Saxon inventory of 1722, A. 558. Now in the Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1902 catalogue, No. 1733.