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 i JAN STEEN 97 361. The Carcase of a Pig. A man and a woman are stuffing sausages. A pig's carcase hangs from a beam. Vigorous and fine in execution. Panel, 12 inches by n inches. Sale. Huybert Ketelaar, Amsterdam, June 19, 1776, No. 225 (17 florins, Coders). 362. The Carcase of a Pig. In an interior, with admiring spec- tators and accessories. Canvas, 27 inches high. Sale. P. Bout, The Hague, April 20, 1779, No. 40 (101 florins). 363. The Carcase of an Ox. W. 466. It hangs in a slaughter- house. Two children play with the bladder. The butcher holds a jug in one hand, and with the other offers a glass of wine to two elderly people who are coming in. Canvas, 21 inches by 26 inches. Sale. A. Delfos, Leyden, 1801. 364. THE CAPTURED DUCKS. Sm. Suppl. 80 ; W. 396. Against a tree is placed a ladder, which is held by an old woman. A man stands on the ladder, and with smiling face hands down a drake. Beneath stands a girl holding a duck, which she is about to place beside another in a basket held by a young man. A boy standing by the ladder and a youth near the tree look on with amused faces. In the foreground is a well, on the edge of which stands a jug. To the right are some eggs on a bench, a dead duck, which has been plucked, on a dish standing upon a small tub ; a kettle, and a dog that barks at the ducks. In the background are a garden gate, trees, and a church tower. "Painted in a broad, masterly manner" (Sm.). Signed in full in the left-hand bottom corner ; canvas, 33^ inches by 26 inches. Exhibited at Brighton, 1884, No. 177. Sales. N. Doekscheer, Amsterdam, September 9, 1789, No. 45 (385 florins, Fouquet). J. J. de Faesch, Amsterdam, July 4, 1833, No. 54 (810 florins, Chaplin, who brought it to England). E. W. Lake, London, 1845 Gi37 : us., Rutley). Now in the collection of Fritz Gans, Frankfort-on-the-Main. 365. A MAN WITH A KNIFE. A man with a knife in one hand and a piece of ham in the other. His figure is turned to the left, and he wears a brown pointed cap and a brown jacket with blue sleeves. The picture looks as if it may be genuine, but it is weak. Now in the Boucher de Perthes Museum, Abbeville ; No. 17 in the antechamber. 366. A FAMILY SCENE. In a modest living-room, with an alcove at the back, sits the mother with a baby on her lap ; she has in her right hand a spoon with which to feed the child. The elder children, a VOL. I H