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in GERARD DOU 403 Signed (according to the Lelie sale catalogue) panel, i inches by 10 inches. Saks. Amsterdam, August 10, 1785, No. 86 (226 florins, Roos). C. van Hardenberg, Utrecht, September 20, 1802, No. 20 (32 florins, bought in). J. A. A. de Lelie and others, Amsterdam, July 29, 1845, No. 46 (80 florins, Tijssen). 170. A Girl with a Pot of Pinks at a Window. Sm. 52, and Suppl. 40 ; M. 232. At a window a girl picks a pink from a plant standing in the left foreground. To the left hangs a bird-cage with a curtain behind it. A Turkey carpet hangs over the window-sill. Pendant to (275) in the Louvre. Dated 1656 ; panel, n^ inches by 7^ inches. Engraved by Marcenay. A copy by D. van Tol is in Lord Northbrook's collection. In the collection of G. van Slingelandt (according to Sm., but see 168^). Sale. Randon de Boisset, Paris,' February 27, 1777 (13,000 francs, with pendant). In the collection of the Duchesse de Berri : sold privately in London, 1834, to William Beckford (500), who sold it at the same price to the dealer Nieuwenhuys, who sold it to Lord Ashburton before 1842 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Ashburton, Bath House, London, where it was destroyed by fire. 171. A WOMAN AT A WINDOW. M. 237. At an arched window, with a goldfinch in a cage on one side and another bird-cage on the other, a girl stands looking out, with her head turned slightly to the left. Her right hand rests on the window-ledge, her left on a brass market-pail full of apples. A carpet hangs out of the window on the right. To the left is a dead pheasant. Beneath the window is the well-known bas- relief, of children playing with a he-goat, by Duquesnoy. In front of the window is a pot of flowers. A curtain is drawn up high on the right. Signed on the cage "G. Dou, 1663 " (the last figure being somewhat uncertain) ; panel, 14 J inches by 10 inches. Now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1898 catalogue, No. 34. 171*7. A Girl at a Window. Sm. 92 ; M. 229^. A girl stands at a window, with one arm leaning on the sill and the other passed through the handle of a brass market-pail. The details agree entirely with those of 171, except that a vine is here introduced at the top of the window where in 171 only the arch is shown. 6| inches by 5 inches (Sm.). Described from Romanet's engraving in the " Le Brun Gallery." 172. A GIRL WITH A BUNCH OF GRAPES AT A WINDOW. M. 227. A girl looks out of an open window which she is about to close with her right hand. From the vine which climbs about the window she has picked a bunch of grapes, which she holds in her left hand. She wears a fur-trimmed jacket with short sleeves. Above the window in a semicircular arch is a relief ; in the centre is a boss with a