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 382 GERARD DOU SECT. who shows her a mouse-trap with a mouse in it. The boy wears long socks and a cap, and carries a palette and brush in his left hand. In the left foreground is a copper kettle, in front of a cushioned stool. On a large hencoop to t'he right are a big brass milk can and a cabbage, above which hangs a dead cock. Farther back a basket, plates, and jugs hang on the wall. The room has a vaulted ceiling ; to the left are two large windows. At the back is the hearth. A figure-piece hangs on the wall. Signed in full on the cask ; panel, 18 inches by 14 inches. Sales. D'Orvielle, Amsterdam, July 15, 1705, No. i (iioo florins). Adriaan Bout, The Hague, August 1 1, 1733, No. 47 (2239 florins 14, V. de Reuver). In the collection of V. de Reuver, Delft, No. 106 ; sold as a whole (for 40,000 florins) to the Landgraf of Hesse-Kassel, 1750. In the Schloss Altstadt, Kassel, 1783, No. 32. In the collection of the Empress Josephine, Malmaison, In the Valedau collection, Paris, 1829 ; Valedau bought it at the Malmaison sale (Sm., who valued it at ^1260 in 1829). Now in the Montpellier Museum, Valedau bequest, 1890 catalogue, No. 678. 116. THE MOUSE-TRAP. M. 273*. Replica of the Mont- pellier picture 115. The signature is false, but the picture probably genuine. Panel, 18 inches by 14 inches. In the Hollandt collection, Brunswick, 1863 (Parthey). Now in the Breslau Museum, Dr. Fischer bequest, 1898 catalogue, No. 337. ii6rf. The Mouse-Trap. Described by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, i. 8. Sale. Comtesse de Verrue, Paris, March 27, 1737, No. 84 (960 francs). 117. A Girl at a Well. Sm. 66 ; M. 282. A girl, in profile to the right, but turning her face to the spectator, holds a jug in one hand and a cord in the other. She is about to let down the jug into a well. A dog, on a bench in front of the well, is gnawing a bone. In the left background is a vine ; in the foreground are a yoke, a kettle, and a pot/ Panel, loj inches by 8 inches. Described by M. from a copy, now at the Brunswick Museum (Frau Reinicke bequest), but not mentioned in the 1900 catalogue. Sales. Servad, Amsterdam, June 25, 1778, No. 30 (850 florins, Fouquet). C. A. de Calonne of Paris, London, March 23, 1795, No. 75, (96 ' I2s.). See Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, i. 239. 117*7. A Woman with a Dog. In the Von Gise catalogue, Bonn, 1742. ii'jb. A Girl stroking a Dog. Sm. 6 ; M. 282^. She is pumping water from a well to give the dog something to drink. Described by Descamps in the Fagel collection, 1753. Sale. Griffier Fagel (Hoet, ii. 412), at P. Coxe's, London, May 22, 1801, No. 39 of second day (39 : i8s.). See Buchanan, i. 304.