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 ii GABRIEL METSU 285 noa. A Visit to the Nursery. Panel, 30 inches by 25 inches. Probably a copy of 1 10. Sale. (Supplementary) Baron de Castell, Hamburg, July 21, 1824, No. 342. r .r // nob. The young Mother. Panel, 8 inches by 7 inches. Probably, from the description, a copy of 110. Exhibited at Cologne, 1840. Sale. J. G. Riedinger, Cologne, July 19, 1841, No. 82. 1 1 or. A Lady visiting a Family seated round the Hearth. A maid-servant is to the right. 30 inches by 31^ inches. Probably identical with the copy in the possession of L. Nicholson, London, March 1902. [See under 1 10.] Sale. De Falbe, London, May 19, 1900, No. 106. nod. A Visit to the Nursery. Panel, 24^ inches by 31^ inches. Probably, from the description, a copy of no. Sale. Cholmley and others, London, February i, 1902, No. 108 (94 : ios., bought in). in. THE SICK CHILD. Sm. 3 and Supply. A young woman wearing a grey jacket, a red skirt, and a blue apron seen almost at full length sits facing the spectator with a child of three or four on her lap. The child wears a yellow frock and a white shirt, and its bare feet hang over the mother's right knee. The mother bends slightly to the left and looks down at the child as if to question it, so that her face is foreshortened and half in shadow. The child, with an abstracted and troubled expres- sion, looks away from the mother out of the picture. To the right is a chair, with a green garment hanging on the back and a white cap on the seat. In the left foreground is an earthenware pan on a stool. Behind the group is a sunlit wall, upon which hang to the left a map, and to the right a picture of the crucifixion in a black frame. The effect of light and the scheme of blue, yellow, and red recall the work of Vermeer, but the brushwork is less dry and seldom or never spotty. The expression on the child's face and the attitude of the mother are rendered with delicate insight. Signed on the left upper corner " G. Metsue " ; canvas, 13 inches by io inches. Sale. Goll van Frankenstein, Amsterdam, July i, 1833, No. 50 (1338 florins, Steengracht). Now in the collection of Jonkheer Steengracht, The Hague. 112. A Mother and Nurse with a Child. 13 inches by u inches. Sales. Coenraad Baron Droste,The Hague,July 21, 1734, No. 3 8 (2 3 5 florins). Marinus de Jeude, The Hague, April 18, 1735, No. 7 (no florins). Bicker van Zwieten, The Hague, April 12, 1741, No. 143(130 florins).