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350 GODFRIED SCHALCKEN SECT. 142. A PRETTY CHILD PLAYING WITH A DOG. The child, barefooted and wearing a satin frock and a tall plumed hat, sits on a red satin cover in the foreground of a landscape. The child holds in the right hand a piece of cake, which a dog on the child's lap tries to seize. Above in the clouds is an arm with an hour-glass. To the right is a rose tree in bloom. Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1681 ; copper, 17 inches by 14 inches. Sales. H. Twent, Leyden, August n, 1789, No. 99 (25 florins, Dclfos). Leyden, April 30, 1791, No. 42. E. Lanfranconi of Pressburg, Cologne, October 21, 1895, No. 183 (610 mark) wrongly called a "Portrait of a Prince of Orange." 143. A QUACK DOCTOR EXAMINING A URINE-GLASS. On the right stands a girl with her eyes cast upward and a hesitating manner ; she asks the quack for advice. Behind her in shadow stands a laughing youth who makes a significant gesture with his fingers. Panel, n inches by 8| inches. In the collection of the Due d'Arenberg, Brussels; W. Burger's 1859 catalogue, No. 57. 144. THE QUACK DOCTOR. Sm. 90. Three-quarter length. In the right foreground he sits, turned to the left, at a table with a green cover. He looks with apparent alarm at the suspicious contents of a urine-bottle which a man has brought, with his wife (or daughter). The woman stands to the left, behind the quack, and wipes the tears from her eyes with a handkerchief. On the extreme left behind the table the man sits looking angrily at the woman and clenching his fists. On the extreme right behind the quack stands a youth, making a significant gesture with the fingers of his right hand. In the right background, through a door, is a laboratory. [Pendant to 92.] Signed in full on the left ; panel, 14 inches by u inches. Etched by Le Rouge in the Musee Napoleon, No. 387 completed by * Massard after a drawing by Plonski ; by Reveil in the Musee de Peinture et de Sculpture, No. 947 ; and by A. L. Zcelander in the Recueil Steengracht, No. 29. Sales. Gerard van Sypes (that is, Everard van Sypestein), Utrecht, April 1 1, 1714 (Hoet, i. 172), No. 5 (458 florins, with pendant). Adriaan Bout, The Hague, August n, 1733 (Hoet, i. 390), No. 76 (930 florins, with pendant). In the Palace at Loo, 1763 inventory, No. 104. In the collection of William V., Stadtholder, 1770 (Terw. 710). In the Royal Gallery, The Hague, 1910 catalogue, No. 161. 144*7. Consulting the Physician. Panel, io inches by 8 inches. Sale. Paris, March 23, 1844, No. 20. 144*. The Sick Lady with the Physician. She is seated. The physician stands behind her, holding a bottle. At the back are two other figures. 29^ inches by 23^ inches.