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189. A Woman blowing up the Fire in a Charcoal Pan.
She leans her elbow on a sort of footstool and tries to kindle the embers by
blowing through her closed ringers.
Signed in full on the left at foot ; panel, 9! inches by i inches.
Sale. R. Pott and others, Rotterdam, October u, 1855, No. 63.
In the Chateauroux Museum, 1874 catalogue, No. 57.
190. A MAID-SERVANT EXAMINING EGGS. Sm. 82.
Three-quarter length ; turned to the left. She sits at a table, on which
stands a lighted oil lamp near a bunch of onions. She carries on her left
arm a basket of eggs. She holds up an egg in her right hand against the
lamplight to see if it is fresh.
Panel, 1 1 inches by 8| inches.
In the Dresden inventory of 1722, No. A. 368.
In the Dresden Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1398.
190*7. An Old Woman with a Lamp. She wears old Dutch
dress and sits with spectacles on nose in an interior. She tries to make
the lamp burn more brightly. In her left hand is a purse. Effectively
lighted.
Panel, 7^ inches by 6 inches.
Sale. Amsterdam, July 24, 1792, No. 89 (59 florins, Nijman).
190^. A Woman lighting a Candle from a Piece of Blazing
Wood. She holds the candle in her right hand and the candlestick in her
left.
Canvas, 24 J inches by i inches.
Sale. P. de Smeth van Alphen, Amsterdam, August I, 1810, No. 91
(i 50 florins, Roos).
191. A Comely Woman with a Pair of Snuffers. She sits at
a table with a. red cloth, holding a music-book in her left hand and in her
right a pair of snuffers, with which she is about to trim a candle in a
candlestick before her. At her side a green curtain is draped high. A
very good picture.
Panel, 14! inches by n| inches.
Sales. Jan Verbeek, Leyden, August 18, 1778, No. 2 (64 florins 10, Coders).
Jan Maul and others, Leyden, September 28, 1782, No. 84 (60
florins, Cremer).
Rotterdam, April 25, 1817, No. 130 (40 florins, Van Eyk).
igia. A Girl putting a Candle in a Lantern. She is in a
strong light.
Canvas, 15 inches by 12 inches.
Sales. (Possibly) Amsterdam, September 7, 1803, No. 176 (6 florins 15).
Von Heintze, Cologne, May 12, 1874, No. 156.
192. A Woman weighing Gold. Three-quarter length. An old
woman sits, turned to the right, at a table on which stands a lighted oil
lamp. She holds in her left hand a pair of scales ; with the right hand she
holds up a coin to the light. On the table before her lie papers.
