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in GERARD DOU 431 258. A GIRL ASLEEP, WITH TWO MEN. Sm. 134; M. 351. In a room a girl sits asleep in a chair. In front of her is a table with a lighted candle on it. A soldier lights his pipe at the candle. Another soldier holds a lighted sulphur match under the girl's nose. At the back a maid-servant enters with a lighted lamp. On the floor in front is a lighted lantern. " This picture is exquisitely finished " (Sm.). Panel, 1 1 inches by 8 J inches, with rounded top. Described by Reynolds (ii. 329) and by Waagen (ii. 1 17). A copy of the same size as the picture, by L. de Mony, was in the sales : B. Kley, The Hague, May 10, 1781 (300 florins, Van der Pot) ; and Van der Pot, Rotterdam, June 6, 1808, No. 82 (200 florins, La Coste). Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1881 ; and at the South Kensington Museum, 1891, No. 41. Sale. Floris Drabbe, Leyden, April I, 1743, No. 5 (630 florins). In the Baillie collection, 1774. In the Hope collection as early as 1781 ; it was there in 1829 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Pelham Clinton Hope, Deepdene, purchased as a whole in 1898 by A. Wertheimer and P, and D. Colnaghi. 259. THE MOUSE -TRAP. M. 353. At an arched window with a red curtain, a young girl stands holding a lighted candle in her left hand, and, in her right, a mouse-trap with a mouse in it. She smiles at a boy, who leans on a table to the right and points at the mouse. Signed in full in the centre ; panel, io| inches by 8 inches. In the Dresden inventory, 1722, A. 508. Then described as an original ; afterwards catalogued as a copy. Martin thinks it an original, and the Dresden catalogues since 1902 assign it to Dou ; the picture was cleaned in 1901. Now in the Dresden Gallery, 1905 catalogue, No. 1721. 260. A Picture with Candlelight. M. 354<&. Originally the exterior of the self-portrait (278*7). In the De Bye collection, Leyden, 1665, No. 22. 26oa. A Picture with Candlelight. M. 354^. Sale. Johan van Tongeren, The Hague, March 24, 1692, No. 56 (120 florins) see Obreen's Ar chief (y. 90). 260^. A Night-Piece. Sale. D. Grenier, Middelburg, August 18, 1712, No. 115 (37 florins). 260^. A Night-Piece. Sale. Jan van Benningen, Amsterdam, May 13, 1716, No. 86 (30 florins). 260^. A Night-Piece. M. 354^. With accessories. Panel, 8 inches by 6 inches, with rounded top. Sale. H. van der Vugt, Amsterdam, April 27, 1745, No. 8 (80 florins, Schouman). 260 and/ Two Night-Pieces. M. 355. Seen in the Bisschop collection, Rotterdam, 1766, by Michel Mnizech