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408 GERARD DOU SECT. Exhibited at the British Gallery, 1826; at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1897 ; in Manchester, 1857, No. 1075. Sales. Lempereur, Paris, May 24, 1773 (3100 francs). Prince.de Conti, Paris, April 8, 1777 (3510 francs, Remy). Beaujon, Paris, April 25, 1787 (2501 francs). J. Gildemeester Jansz, Amsterdam, June II, 1800, No. 36 (1950 florins, Telting). In the English Royal Collection, 1829 (Sm.). Now at Buckingham Palace, London, 1885 catalogue, No. 10 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm.). A Young Girl busy scouring. Sm. 82 ; M. 280. A young girl stands at a table, scouring. Beside her is a lad. A cat, a spinning- wheel, a chair, a tub, and cooking utensils are among the accessories. Panel, 12^ inches by II inches, with rounded top. A copy by Beschay was in the sale: Rotterdam, September 20, 1756, No. 71 (40 florins). Sales. P. de Smeth van Alphen, Amsterdam, August i, 1810 (1050 florins, De Vries). H. Croese, Amsterdam, September 18, 1811, No. 21 (320 florins, Van Yperen for Wreesman). 185. A GIRL WITH FISH AND A BOY WITH A HARE. Sm. 3 ; M. 258. At an arched window, with a relief in the grotesque style under it, a girl stands looking forward to the left. She takes out a fish by the head from a tub of fish in the- window-sill. On the left of the window-sill is a mortar ; to the right are carrots, a cabbage, and a large brass pan. Behind the girl a boy, wearing a cap, with a merry face, shows her a hare. On the left side of the window hangs a dead cock ; on the right is a basket of eggs. At the back is a curtain. " This very excellent picture" (Sm.). Signed in full on the edge of the window-sill and dated 1652 ; panel, 12 inches by 9^ inches. Described by Descamps. Sales. Adriaan van Hoeck, Amsterdam, April 7, 1706, No. i (770 florins). Coenraad Baron Droste, The Hague, July 21, 1734, No. 40 (1000 florins). Van Zwieten, The Hague, April 12, 1741, No. 64 (1290 florins). Gaignat, Paris, December 1768 (6220 francs). Now in the Karlsruhe Gallery, 1894 catalogue, No. 266. 186. THE POULTERER'S SHOP. Sm. 44; M. 263. At an arched window of stone, a young maid-servant laughingly points with her left hand to a dead hare which an elderly woman holds up on the right. The girl leans her right hand on a bright tin market-pail, holding a skinned rabbit, which stands on the window-sill. To the right of the pail are a trussed fowl and duck, and a dead peahen. In front of the window to the left a live cock in a wicker crate is drinking out of a little pan. Beneath the window-sill is the well-known bas-relief, of children playing with a he-goat, by Duquesnoy. A bird-cage hangs on the left side of the window, and another hangs at the back of the shop. In the left background, at an