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 in GERARD DOU 365 65. THE DENTIST. Sm. 25 ; M. 89. In a room with an arched window to the left a peasant, dressed in green, sits in an arm- chair turned three-quarters to the left. Behind him stands a dentist, who is pulling out one of his teeth. On a table at the back is a skull. On the floor near the peasant are his basket, hat, and stick. Rembrandt's father sat as model for the dentist. An early work. Panel, I2| inches by 10 inches. A copy is in the Amiens Museum. In the collection of Louis XIV. Now in the Louvre, Paris, 1900 catalogue, No. 2355 (^ No. 128). 66. THE DROPSICAL WOMAN. Sm. 95; M. 91. The scene is a handsomely furnished room, lighted from the left by an arched window with a small round window above it. In the centre sits a sick woman, facing left, with her left foot on a foot- warmer. Her left hand rests in her lap ; with her right she clings to a girl who kneels on the left beside her and looks at her with tearful eyes. An older girl, standing behind the sick woman, hands her a spoonful of medicine and looks anxiously at her. On the right, beside the patient, stands the doctor, in profile to the left, with a cap on his head ; in his right hand he holds up a urine-glass to the light, and with his left makes a gesture of anxiety. A large tapestry hangs in folds on the right. In the right foreground are a wine-cooler and an arm-chair ; in the left foreground is a reading-desk ; a bench stands beside the window with a clock above it ; farther back is the hearth. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling. The picture is in excellent preservation, and has not, as one too often finds to be the case in France, been ruined by over-cleaning. Signed on the edge of a Bible placed on the reading-desk : " 1663, G. Dou out 65 Jaer " the statement of age, according to M., is either a later addition or must be read differently ; panel, 33 inches by 26^ inches, with rounded top. The picture was originally in an ebony case, the outside of which was the still-life of a silver ewer in the Louvre (389). In the De Bye collection, Leyden, 1665 (Martin, app. ii.). The Elector Palatine (Karl Philipp ?) bought it for 30,000 florins, and gave it to Prince Eugene of Savoy, who hung it in the Belvedere, Vienna. After Eugene's death in 1736 it was returned to the Royal Family of Savoy, and hung in the Royal Gallery at Turin. Charles Emanuel IV. of Savoy presented it in 1799 to General Clausel, who gave it to the French nation. It has since hung in the Louvre. See Nieuwe Algem. Konst en L. Bode, xi. (1799), p. 95^ ; Martin, p. 72, etc. ; Frimmel, Gal. Studien, part ii. (1892), p. 278. Engraved by Fosseyeux and by Claessens. Now in the Louvre, 1900 catalogue, No. 2348 (old No. 121). 66*7. A Quack operating on a Girl's Palate. With many accessories. 1 8 inches by 13 inches. Sale. Adriaan Bout, The Hague, August 1 1, 1733, No. 50.