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 in GERARD DOU 411 Captured by the French Army in 1806, and presented with the collection to the Empress Josephine for the Malmaison Gallery. Sold to the Emperor or Russia in 1825. Compare 191. Now in the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 904. 191. A HERRING-WOMAN AND A BOY. Sm. Suppl. 18 ; M. 256. Through an arched window is seen an old woman, who stands facing left in her shop. She wears a white cap, a blue skirt, a dark grey bodice with red sleeves, and a white collar. She is the same model as in two other Hermitage pictures (160 and 94). With her left hand she holds a herring by the tail ; in her right hand she has a coin which she has taken from a boy, who wears a brown jacket, blue apron, and grey hat. The boy smiles at the woman, and points to another herring in the tub placed on the window-sill beside a bunch of onions. The woman tilts up the tub with her right hand. At the side of the window is a bird- cage. In the left background are an open door and a table, on which is a tray of little cups, with other objects. Signed in full on a small box ; panel, 12 inches by 9 inches, with rounded top. A copy was in the sale : Donati Martini and others, Amsterdam, November 8, 1898, No. 23. Sales. Cornelis Wittert van Valkenburg, Rotterdam, April 1 1, 1731, No. 25. Adriaan Bout, The Hague, August n, 1733, No. 49 (1405 florins). In the collection of the Elector of Hessen-Kassel ; at Schloss Altstadt, 1783 catalogue, No. 18. Captured by the French Army in 1806, and presented to the Empress Josephine for the Malmaison Gallery. Sold to the Emperor of Russia in 1825. Compare 190. Now in the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 905. 192. A HERRING-WOMAN AND A MAID-SERVANT. M. 253. Through an arched window of stone is seen a shop, lighted also from the left by another window. On the window-sill in front are bunches of carrots and onions, a cloth, and a tub of herrings, while a basket of eggs and a pair of scales hang on the wall. At the window stands an old woman, wearing a black skirt, red jacket, and yellow apron, with a white collar and cap. She holds a herring by the tail in her right hand and tilts up the tub with her left. She turns towards a young maid- servant who leans on a copper market-pail, full of eggs, placed on the window-sill. The girl wears a yellow jacket with green under-sleeves and a green sash. Beneath the window-sill is the well-known bas-relief, of children playing with a he-goat, by Duquesnoy. Signed on the left of the window-sill, but the signature is now almost illegible ; panel, 19! inches by 15 inches, with rounded top. Probably only a copy. Attributed to Van Staveren in the catalogue since 1863 ; according to the entry, it came from the Crozat collection with the signature of Van Staveren. But this is an error, as the picture is not by Van Staveren. The last edition of the catalogue describes it simply as a copy after Dou. Purchased by the Empress Catherine II. Now in the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 926.