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 1 8 JAN STEEN SECT. above a door. The angels are unsuccessful. The brownish landscape, which recalls the work of Eeckhout, was by I. Lievens, according to the Wittert sale catalogue. The whole picture shows Flemish influence. Canvas, 75 inches by 54^ inches. Sa/f.C. Wittert van Valkenburg, Rotterdam, April n, 1731, No. 59 (160 florins). (Probably) Brun, Paris, November 30, 1841, No. 27 (1350 francs) ; measuring 6z (?74|) inches by 56! inches. In the Van Ruth collection, Antwerp. Now in the Museum at Dunkirk, 1891 catalogue, No. 314, Coffyn bequest. 40. The Flight into Egypt. W. 208. Sale. Amsterdam, June 4, 1727, No. 43 (15 florins). 40*7. The Flight into Egypt. The Virgin sits in a landscape with the Child, who gives grass to a lamb. Beside Him is John. Joseph, leading an ass, salutes the Virgin. To the right Elizabeth brings vegetables, with Zachariah behind her. In the sky is a radiant company of angels. Canvas, 25^ inches by 22 inches. Sale. Mr. G. Groeninx van Zoelen, and others, Rotterdam, June 25, 1800, No. 10 (26 florins). 41. The Flight into Egypt (?). In the foreground of a landscape sits a woman with a child at her breast ; near her is a youth asleep. Beside her stands a servant saddling an ass. Among the trees are a peasant hut and other buildings j a woman draws water. The whole is rendered with spirit in a lively and vigorous manner. Canvas, i inches by 18 inches. Sale. Pieter Gets and others, Amsterdam, January 31, 1791, No. 5 (16 florins 10, Wubbels). 42. The Massacre of the Innocents. " A picture which, by its revolting coarseness, proves the artist's complete incapacity to deal with such a theme" (Waagen, ii. 138). Formerly in H. A. J. Munro's collection, but not in the sale in London of June i, 1878. 43. THE HOLY FAMILY. Sm. Suppl. 56 ; W. 207. The Virgin, in a purplish-grey dress, sits in a room, holding the Child in her lap. The youthful John, who has a cross in his hand and a lamb at his side, is playing with the Child. In this part of the picture the figures are mostly undraped. Behind the children stands Elizabeth. On the left Joseph sits in a pensive attitude at a table and plots out a diagram with compasses. Through a doorway on the right is seen an adjacent room, in which several winged angels are busy. The picture has lost its fresh- ness through overcleaning ; it must have been very fine. Several acces- sories are well preserved, such as a dress, a stone pan, and other things. Canvas, 32^ inches by 36^ inches. In the possession of the dealer Yates, London, 1836. Now in the collection of the widow Pauwels, nee Allard, Brussels.