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3 o FRANS HALS SECT. ioyr. A Youth. Half life size. He lays his right hand on his bare breast. Bold and loose in style. Panel, 6 inches by 5 inches. Sale. J. Pekstok, Amsterdam, December 17, 1792, No. 50. 107^ and e. Two Peasants. Sale. Hendrik Bagh, Leyden, August 24, 1761, No. 14 (4 florins 10); and No. 15 (3 florins 10). I07/ A Peasant Half-length, life size. Canvas, 21 inches by 17 inches. Sale. J. Christiaanze, Amsterdam, November 17, 1779, No. 48 (2 florins, J. Yver). lojg. Head of an Old Peasant. Panel, 7 inches by 6 inches. In the collection at the Schloss Altstadt, Kassel, 1783, No. 194 ; not now to be found in the Kassel Gallery. 108. HILLE BOBBE. B. 92 ; M. 260. Half-length, life size. A laughing old woman, seated almost in full face, turns her head to the right and looks down. She wears a white cap and a white collar. In her right hand she holds a beer-mug with open lid. On her left shoulder sits an owl. Dark background. It is not yet quite so broadly painted as the Haarlem regent pieces, but is in the same style and may probably be dated about 1650. At the back, on a piece of the old frame which has been let into the new, is the name of the sitter, apparently Mille or Nille Pabbe, or according to the catalogue " N(M ?)alle Babbe van Haarlem Frans Hals." Canvas, 30 inches by 25^ inches. Sales. J. F. Sigault and J. J. van Limbeck, May 12, 1834, No. 92 (9 florins, Roos) said to be on panel. Stokbroo van Hoogwoud en Aartswoud, Hoorn, September 3, 1867. In the Suermondt collection, Aachen, 1874. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 80 1 C. 109. HILLE BOBBE. M. 261. Half-length, life size. A laughing woman sits facing three-quarters right. Her hands, the right on the left, rest on a table, on which she leans her left forearm. Her head is turned three-quarters left. She wears a white cap and a soft frilled collar. On her right shoulder sits an owl. Signed ; canvas, 29 inches by 23^ inches. Etched by L. B. Coders, with the inscription " Babel van Haarlem " and a verse. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 7482. In the collection of Lord Palmerston, Broadlands. In the Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1905 catalogue, No. 58; pur- chased in 1871. no. A FISHER-GIRL WITH A BASKET. B. 95; M. 258. Half-length. The girl is turned somewhat to the right. Her