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 in GERARD DOU 429 252. A Woman selling Fish. M. 342^. A woman sits in her booth holding a lighted candle. A young maid-servant with a basket talks to her. A lighted lantern hangs in front ; a young girl lights another on the right. To the left are booths, above which is seen the moon. Signed j panel, 15^ inches by 13^ inches. At Pommersfelden as early as 1719. Sale. Count Schonborn of Pommersfelden, Paris, May 17, 1867, No. 21. 253. THE STOREROOM. Sm. Suppl. 4 ; M. 348*. A cook, carrying a lighted candle, enters a cellar, in the right foreground of which are a pot on a tub, a brass kettle, and a mouse-trap. At the back are kitchen utensils and provisions. Martin thinks the attribution to Dou uncertain, but it is certainly from Dou's studio. Canvas on panel, 12^ inches by 10 inches. Formerly in one of the Royal palaces of Prussia. At Berlin, 1842 (Sm.) Now in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1904 catalogue, No. 854. 254. IN THE WINE-CELLAR (or, The Surprise). Sm. Suppl. 48 ; M. 349. On the left of a cellar a young girl kneels in front of a wine cask, and is about to drink a glass which she has just filled. A boy holding a lamp in his right hand, which throws a strong light on both faces, stands near the girl, behind the cask, and raises his left hand with a warning gesture. He wears a cap and has long curls. In the left fore- ground are a lighted lantern, a cabbage, and a jug ; on the right a jug lies on a cask. What looks like a dead duck a hare, according to Sm. hangs from the vaulted roof of the cellar, which forms the top of the picture. Signed on the cask in the bottom left-hand .corner, and painted before 1665 ; panel, 13 inches by 10 inches. The picture was originally enclosed in a wooden case, with a painting of still-life on the exterior (388), also at Dresden. In the De Bye collection, Leyden, 1665, No. 13. In Guarienti's Dresden inventory before 1753, No. 1723. Now in the Dresden Gallery, 1905 catalogue, No. 1713. 255. THE SURPRISE. Sm. 22 and 58 ; M. 348. A maid- servant kneels in front of a cask in a wine-cellar. She holds the tap with her right hand, and with the other offers a glass of wine to an old man. He stands beside her, holding a lighted candle and resting his left hand on her shoulder. The cellar-door opens, and the old man's wife enters with a lighted lamp. She makes a threatening gesture. In the foreground are a brass milk-pail, a mouse-trap, some charcoal, and a lighted lantern. [Compare 257*.] Panel, 16 inches by 12 inches. Described by Descamps in the Lubbeling collection, 1754. Engraved by J. F. Beauvarlet, and by Sarabas in the collection of Chereny de la Chapelle, Paris. Sale. (Possibly) Antony Grill, Amsterdam, April 14, 1728, No. I (700 florins). In the collection of Johannes Lubbeling, Amsterdam (Hoet, ii. 517).