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 ii GABRIEL METSU 281 96*2. A Young Lady with a Dog. Sales. Amsterdam, January 21, 1733, No. 9 (230 florins). Amsterdam, April 2, 1734, No. 6 (180 florins). qbb. A Woman at a Table feeding a Dog with Bread. The dog leaps up at her. Panel, 10 inches by 19 inches (?). Sale. Amsterdam, July 13, 1812, No. 71 (90 florins, Roos). 97. A Lady with a Dog (or, Le Corsage rouge). Sm. 9 and Suppl. 36. A lady, wearing a scarlet jacket and a silk skirt, sits at a table covered with an Oriental carpet. She appears to have just come from her room, and plays with a pet dog. Upon her lap is a piece of blue paper. On the table is a plaster figure of an infant "after Flamingo" (Sm.). Panel, 13^ inches by 1 1 inches ; a pendant to "Le Corsage Bleu " (149). Exhibited at the British Gallery, 1815. Sales. Randon de Boisset, Paris, February 3, I777 No. 8 (12,900 francs, with pendant). Destouches, Paris, March 21, 1794 (6101 francs). Wattier, Paris, 1797 (6900 francs, with pendant). Robit, Paris, May 21, 1801 (3120 francs). Sir Simon Clarke, Bart., London, 1840 (535 : ios., J. Nieuwenhuys). In the collection of Baron James de Rothschild, 1842 (Sm.). Now, probably, in one of the Rothschild collections in England. 98. A Boy with a Dog. Panel, 16 inches by 12 inches. Sale. Scott and others, London, June 25, 1900, No. 108. 98*. The Pet Dog. Panel, 15^ inches by 13 inches. Compare 95, the dimensions of which are almost the same. Sale. Duke of Cambridge and others, London, June 25, 1904, No. 105. 98^. A Lady with a Man-Servant. Given in pledge by Barent van Lin at The Hague, April 18, 1676, to the notary Dispontijn (A. Bredius). 99. A WOMAN CONVERSING WITH A MAID-SER- VANT. A woman wearing a white silk dress and a green jacket trimmed with 'fur hands a coin to a maid-servant, who has a basket of oranges on her arm. Panel, 12 inches by 13^ inches. In the Nostitz collection, Prague, since the inventory of 1765 ; 1905 cata- logue, No. 128. 100. A Lady and a Negro in a Room. Sale. Amsterdam, April 27, 1740, No. 13 (142 florins). 1 01. A Lady sealing a Letter (or. The Correspondent). Sm. 100. To the left, in a bedroom, a lady in a dark velvet jacket trimmed with white fur sits at a table covered with a cloth. She holds a stick of