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 in GERARD DOU 387 125^. A Young Girl cleaning a Kettle. In the centre of a room stands a young woman, seen from the left, who bends over a tin kettle which she is polishing. She wears a red jacket, with a white kerchief and cap, a brown skirt and a greyish-green apron ; her sleeves are rolled back and her skirt pinned up. She rests the kettle on a tub, in front of which is a large lantern. In the left-hand corner of the room is a large table with a green cloth ; pots and pans lie on the floor in front of it, and underneath it is an overturned pewter pot. On the back wall hangs a map. In the right-hand corner is an arm-chair. Panel, 19 inches by 17 inches. Sale, P. Mersch, Berlin, March I, 1905, No. 22. 126. THE WOMAN SELLING CAKES AND FRUIT. Sm. Suppl. 52 ; M. 270. On the right a woman in a blue dress with red sleeves sits facing left. She has a pan in one hand, and with the other hand takes a coin from a little girl in a red skirt and yellow bodice. In the middle distance another little girl is eating a pancake. In the foreground is a three-legged stool, beside the pot of dough for the pancakes ; near these is a puppy. On the right are a basket standing on a tub, and a pair of scales. High up on the right a man looks out of a window ; on the window-sill are a jug and some fruit. In the background is a landscape. In the left foreground is a withered tree. This is a very fine picture, but it is very dirty and is covered with a dirty glass. Panel, 17 inches by 14 inches, with rounded top. Now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence (not in the 1891 catalogue), where it was in 1842 (Sm.). 127. THE YOUNG GIRL SELLING FRUIT. A young girl in a red jacket and brown apron, with a basket of grapes on her arm, converses with an old woman, who leans on the half-door of her house and offers the girl a coin. On the ground is a basket of fruit ; to the right is a barrow full of vegetables. Panel, 17 inches by 12 inches. Described by Sm. as a Metsu (see Metsu, 48 ; Sm. 50). Waagen thought it an early work of Metsu's in the manner of Dou. Catalogued as a Dou in the Royal catalogue. Sm. compared it with a similar picture by Metsu, now in the Wallace collection (33) ; this may have been the picture of the following sales : Sales. (Possibly) J. Danser Nijman, Amsterdam, August 16, 1797, No. 159 (750 florins). (Possibly) G. Crawford of Rotterdam, London, 1806 (252). (Possibly) At Christie's, London, 1807 (189). According to Sm. it was in the Marquess of Hertford's collection before 1833, but this seems to be a mistake. Now at Buckingham Palace, London, 1885 catalogue, No. 141 ; Sm. saw it in the Royal Collection in 1833. 128. THE HERRING -WOMAN AND THE BEGGAR. Sm. 112 j M. 268. A beggar solicits an alms from an old woman who sits in front of a ruin selling herrings and vegetables. The old woman is taking money from a maid-servant who stands behind a castle between