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 270 GABRIEL METSU SECT. Rolls). Sm. 96 and Suppl. 26. The baker, wearing a red cap and a red jacket, with his shirt-sleeves rolled up, stands at his door blowing a horn to announce that hot rolls are ready. Some rolls and gingerbread lie on a stall in the foreground ; some cracknels are hanging up to the left. This is not a specially good picture ; its smooth style recalls more or less the work of A. de Vois. One is reminded, by way of contrast, of Jan Steen's " The Baker Oostwaard and his Wife" at Amsterdam (872). [Sm., however, thought it was " painted with wonderful breadth and power."] Signed in full to the right j panel, 13^ inches by n inches. Formerly in the Van Winter collection, Amsterdam. In the Van Loon collection, Amsterdam, 1826-1842 (Sm.), Now in the collection of E. de Rothschild, Paris. 53. AN OLD WOMAN COOKING PANCAKES. To the left, at the entrance to a booth, sits an old woman, wearing a black cap and jacket with red sleeves. She is turned to the right, and is cooking pancakes on a small stove standing in the middle of the booth. She takes the dough with her right hand from a large, red earthenware dish, while she stretches out the left hand to receive a coin from a comely young woman, wearing a blue dress with red sleeves and a white cap, who stands to the right holding a little girl by the arm. In the right foreground, beside the young woman, is a ten-year-old boy, with a book under his left arm, who is eating a pancake. In the foreground is a heap of charcoal and firewood. In the right background is a landscape. This is not an exceptionally fine work, but it is good. Signed in full upon the stove ; panel, I2| inches by 12 inches. Now in the Wachtmeister collection, Wanas, Sweden; Goethe's 1895 catalogue, No. 40. 53^. An Old Woman cooking Pancakes. Sale. The Hague, July 18, 1753, No. 30 (25 florins 10). 53/>. A Woman cooking Pancakes. An old woman, who looks at the spectator, but turns her body to the left, warms her hands at a stone brazier. She wears a black cap, a blue apron, and orange-coloured sleeves. On the fire in front of her pancakes are cooking. Farther back is a basket of apples. Through an opening to the left is a view of a town with a bridge, houses, and trees. Signed in full on the wall, and dated " 16 . . ." j panel, 14 inches by 1 1 inches. Sale. Dr. van Cleef, Paris, April 4, 1864, No. 60 (1620 francs, Meffre). 54. An Old Woman cooking Pancakes. Sm. 5. An old woman, with a cap on her head, sits beside a stall of eatables ; she is cooking pan- cakes on a small stove. In front of her stands a boy, hat in hand. On a fence near her is a cat looking at the herrings strung up over the woman's head. It is "painted with extraordinary breadth and power" (Sm.). Canvas, 25 inches by 23 inches.