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 272 GABRIEL METSU SECT. 57. A Company having their Fortunes told by Gipsies. Canvas on panel, 1 1 inches by 9 inches. In the picture gallery at Schloss Altstadt, Kassel, 1783, No. 69. 58. TWELFTH NIGHT (or, Le Roi Boit). Sm. 98. Twelfth Night is being celebrated in a cottage interior. The "king," seated in an arm-chair at one. end of the table, is draining his tall glass. Two women sit facing him at the other end. In front is a child in an infant's chair. At the other side of the table are a boy and a fiddler with a fool's cap. A girl with a pan in her hand stands at the hearth. In the back- ground a woman enters, carrying a dish and a three-branched candlestick ; to the right a man carries a heavy basket down a staircase. In execution this work recalls the pictures of smithies. In subject, and to some extent also in colouring, it resembles the work of Jan Steen, and was probably painted under his influence at Leyden. [Compare 219-220.] [Sm. says : " This picture is remarkable for its vigour of colour and the breadth and spirit of the handling j and these, together with the sub- ject, induce a belief that the artist painted it in imitation of the works of his friend Jan Steen."] Signed in full on the infant's chair ; canvas, 32 inches by 38^ inches. Engraved in the " Diisseldorf Gallery." Now in the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 424. 58*7. Twelfth Night. See Sm. 98. A repetition of 58, " with slight deviations in the colours of some of the dresses" (Sm.). Canvas, 1 8 inches by i inches. Sold by Sm. to Webb before 1833 (3 15). In the Norton collection, 1833 (Sm.). 59. A Man warming Himself at a Fire in a Room. 9 inches by 8 inches. Sale. N. C. Hasselaar, Amsterdam, April 26, 1742, No. 6 (76 florins). 60. A Young Lady looking at her Watch. Sale. Theodor Wilkins, Amsterdam, June 17, 1748, No. 60 (8 florins). 6 1. A Woman with a White Cap and a Fur-Trimmed Jacket. Life-size. Canvas, 36 inches by 28J inches. Sale. Pieck-Le Leu de Wilhelm, The Hague, May 28, 1777, No. 28 (130 florins, Bergeon). 6ia. A Lady with a Fur Jacket. Sale. Rotterdam, April II, 1827, No. 112 (n florins). 6ib. A Lady in a Red Jacket and Orange-Coloured Dress. Said to have been in the Choiseul collection, though it does not corre- spond with any of the pictures known in that collection. Sale. London, 1861 (157 : ios., Austin). 62. A Lady opening a Window. Sale. R. Vernon, London, 1877 G44 : 5 s - Colnaghi).