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 in GERARD DOU 385 122. A HERRING-WOMAN PARING APPLES. Sm. 119; M. 275. A three-quarter length. A woman sits in the open, before a house, facing three-quarters left ; in her lap she has a dish of apples, one of which she is paring. She wears a black hat over a white cap and a white collar and kerchief. On a bench in the right foreground are a tub of herrings, some garlic, and bread ; above these hang some flat fish. High up is a cage. In the right background, in a recess of the house- wall, is a beer-jug. At the back is seen the " Blauwpoort " at Leyden. Signed in full on the bench and dated 1667 ; panel, 12 inches by io inches. Sale. (Probably) Gillis van Hoven, Amsterdam, March 24, 1755, No. 21 (38 florins, Nijhuys). In the Zweibrlicken Gallery. Now in the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 398 ; where it was in 1829 (Sm.). 123. A Woman Cook cutting a Cabbage. M. 272/2. In the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden. (See Granberg, i. 56, No. 198 ; and Martin, ch. ii.) 123*7. A Girl with a Jug. 10^ inches by 7^ inches. Sale. Cornelius Wittert, Rotterdam, April 11, 1731, No. 26 (300 florins). 123^. A Woman scraping Turnips. With many accessories. Sale. Amsterdam, April 2, 1734, No. 4 (50 florins). 123^. A Woman Cook. A dog lies in the foreground. Described by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curioszfe, i. 7. Sale. Comtesse de Verrue, Paris, March 27, 1737, No. 77 (850 francs 16). 123^. A Girl pouring Milk into a Dish. With many accessories. Perhaps identical with 179. Sale. Count van Hogendorp, The Hague, July 27, 1751, No. 4 (155 florins). 123^. A Girl cleaning a Lantern. M. 277. In the background is a woman with two children. Panel, 7^ inches by 6 inches. Sale. The Dowager Van den Sanden, nee Munter (323 florins, Lormier). In the catalogue of W. Lormier, The Hague, about 1754, No. 7 Bought by Prince Galitzin, November 10, 1756 (525 florins). 123*. A Woman pouring Milk from a Jug into a Dish. M. 271*. Panel, 4 inches by 5 inches. Sale. W. Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763, No. 71 (105 florins, Versola) ; see Hoet, ii. 421. 123/1 A Woman cutting Vegetables. M. 281. Panel, io inches by 8^ inches. Sale. Van Susteren, Antwerp, June 26, 1764, No. 7 (200 florins). VOL. I 2 C