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 78 JAN STEEN SECT. 263. A Woman selling Vegetables, seated, with a Market Pail. Canvas, io inches by 8 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April I, 1833, No. 164 (4. florins, Hanen). 264. A Vegetable Market. A woman dealer bargaining with a girl. Near her are a beggar and other figures. Sketchy. Panel, i6 inches by 19 inches. Sale. Willmet and others, Amsterdam, January 25, 1836, No. 161 (480 florins, Brondgeest). 265. THE LITTLE HAWKER. In an interior sit a man and a woman, to whom a boy offers cakes for sale. Signed in full ; canvas, 15 inches by 12 inches. Now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1898 catalogue, No. 76. 266. The Gaufre-Seller.--W. 442. Panel, 13 inches by io inches. Vandewalle donation, 1884. Now in the Dunkirk Museum, 1891 catalogue, No. 313. 267. THE GAUFRE-SELLER. W. 151. On the right is a man, hat in hand, who carries on his arm a basket with a cornet. Bowing, he offers a long object to a girl seated on the left. Near the girl is a flute- player. An old woman lays her hand on the girl's shoulder. In the foreground is a dog barking at the hawker. In the background is a niche, with a window. [Compare 268.] Signed in full in the right-hand bottom corner ; panel, 14 inches by n inches. Described by Blanc. Sale. Amsterdam, April 14, 1791, No. 131. [Pendant to 722.] Now in the Rouen Museum, 1890 catalogue, No. 540. 268. Interior with Two Men and Two Women. Sm. 181 ; W. 125. The comely girl turns in her chair towards a thin man, who has a basket on his arm and a piece of gingerbread in his hand, and seems to be recommending his eatables. The other man sits to the right of the woman and plays a flute. Panel, 16 inches by 13 inches (about). Engraved by L. A. Claessens under the title " Les Amours de Jan Steen." This picture and another, probably the pendant (722), correspond with two other pictures of different dimensions, which were sold at the Keiser or Keyser ale, Alkmaar, 1766, for 112 florins. [See also 721 and 425.] In the collection of Edward Gray in 1833 (Sm.). Possibly identical with the Rouen picture (267). 269. The Baker. W. 442. The baker leans over the half-door of his shop and blows a horn. His wife sits within at the window, arranging the loaves. It is rendered in a very natural and careful style. 12^ inches by 10^ inches. Compare, among the portraits, that of the baker Oostwaard (872). Sale. J. P. Wierman, Amsterdam, August 18, 1762, No. 49 (55 florins).