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3 o GERARD TER BORCH SECT. 730. The Sempstress. $*/,._Amstcrdam, May 16, 1696 (Hoct, i. 35), No. 17 (5 6 florins). 73^. The Sempstress. Salf.)oh*n Stcyn, Haarlem, April 28, 1711, No. 9 (50 florins). 731. A Lady sewing. A young lady sits sewing. She looks round at a young man playing with a bird in a cage. Panel, 24* inches by 21 i inches. S^.Jacoba Keiser, Alkmaar, June 2, 1766 (Terw. 537), No. 10 (55 florins, with . An Old Woman spinning, who warms her Hands. An old woman sits at a spinning-wheel. On her lap she holds a warming-pan at which she warms her hands. Well executed. Panel, io inches by g| inches. Sale. B. Kley, The Hague, May 10, 1781, No. 13 (i 30 florins, Full ings). 73^. The Lace-maker. A woman seated to the left, wearing a pink bodice and skirt with a yellow satin wrapper. She has her pillow in her lap and holds a piece of muslin. On a chair at the back is a red velvet cushion. Canvas, 9^ inches by 8| inches. Sale. R. Papin, Paris, March 28, 1873 (2250 francs). 74. A WOMAN PEELING AN APPLE. Sm. 69. A young woman in a yellow jacket trimmed with fur, with a black lace scarf round her head, sits at a table with a blue cover, and peels an apple for a little girl standing beside her. The girl wears a large plumed hat and looks at the woman. On the table are a dish of apples and a candlestick. On the floor to the right is a basket with a cushion in it. On the back wall hangs a map of Europe. To the left is a door. The figures are three- quarter length. " Elegantly composed and well finished " (Sm.). Canvas, 14 inches by 12 inches. Copies or replicas are or were 1. In the Gotha Museum, 1890 catalogue, No. 296; panel, 13^ inches by 8 inches. 2. In the collection of Lewis Fry, Clifton ; exhibited at the White- chapel Art Gallery, London, 1904, No. 355. 3. In the collection of Henri Heugel, Paris ; signed with the mono- gram, and dated 1651. 4. In the collection of Jules Porges, Paris. 5. In the sale : Edmund Higginson of Saltmarsh Castle, London, June 4, 1846 (28 : 75., Smith) ; sold as by " Musscher." This was in the Boursault collection, Paris, 1833 (Sm., who described it as a duplicate of Sm. 69, "equally excellent"). 6. In the sale: Jentink and others, Amsterdam, June I, 1897, No. 201 (800 florins) measuring 15 inches by 8| inches. 7. In the sale : Vera KoudachefF and others, London, December i, 1906, No. 57. Signed with the monogram, and dated 1661 ; 14 inches by 1 1^ inches.