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44 o PIETER VAN SLINGELAND SECT. the effect of light and shade, the colour, drawing, and brushwork are in a like degree admirable. Panel, 1 1 inches by 9 inches. Sale. Stevens, Antwerp, August 9, 1837, No. 37 (3000 francs, Ter Bruggen). 62. A Kitchen. A maid-servant cleans fish at the table. An amorous cavalier lays his left hand on her ; he holds in his right hand a beer-glass from which he is about to drink. Vegetables are strewn on the floor. Through a door at the back is seen a party of ladies and gentlemen. Painted in the manner and with the delicacy of Dou's works. Panel, 6 inches by 8 inches. Sale. P. J. F. Vrancken, Lokeren, May 15, 1838, No. 121 (1175 florins, Borden). 63. A Kitchen. In front a woman seated near some vegetables is plucking a duck. Beside her stands a boy. Behind her is a man. Finely rendered. Panel, 12 inches by 12^ inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April 20, 1841, No. 81 (50 florins, Engelberts). 64. A Kitchen Scene. In a kitchen a maid-servant stands at a table on which lies a bunch of carrots. She converses with a little boy opposite to her. On the floor lie some dead game. Carefully and well painted. Panel, 9 inches by 7 inches. Sales. Amsterdam, April 24, 1811, No. 113 (50 florins, Van Yperen). W. Wreesman Borghartz, Amsterdam, April II, 1816, No. 171 (40 florins, Roos). C. S. Roos, Amsterdam, August 28, 1820, No. 101 (90 florins, Luderus). Luderus and others, Amsterdam, April 27, 1840 (80 florins, Roos). J. A. Topfer, Amsterdam, November 16, 1841, No. 73 (72 florins, Roos). F. van Harencarspel Eckhardt and others, Amsterdam, August 15, 1842, No. 1 06 (100 florins, Challa). 640. A Kitchen. A lady and a maid-servant. Canvas. Sale. Van Barneveld, Van den Haute, and others, Antwerp, February 26, ' 1844, No. 17. 64^. A Young Cook with Fish. A young cook is gutting fish which she takes out of a tub. Of great delicacy and fine execution. Sale. Paris, March 4, 1845, No. 98 (540 francs). 65. A Kitchen. Sm. 23, and Suppl. 29. In the centre of a kitchen a pot of soup is simmering on the fire. Near it sits a young woman, holding on her lap an earthenware pan and tasting the soup in a spoon. Behind her is a table with a cover, on which are a willow basket, a bottle, a spoon, and a pestle and mortar. On a shelf on the wall above are books and a torch. Near the table at the back is a pan of cabbages and carrots.