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 i JAN STEEN 5I hand upon her breast. He looks round with a smile at a woman who is speaking to him. A youth looks on curiously from the background. On a table to the left are a candlestick, two books, a cup, and other objects ; at the back is a bed with red curtains. It is a good picture ; the figure of the girl is rendered with special delicacy. Signed in full in the upper right-hand corner ; panel, 25 inches by inches. Described by Ch. Blanc, Viardot, and others. Formerly in the Crozat collection. A replica, probably a copy, was included as an original in the sale of Menke of Antwerp, Brussels, June I, 1904, No. 75. A copy, probably from a print, with the composition reversed, was in the sales: Amsterdam, March 30, 1874, No. 98; Keil-Grote, Cologne, June 7, 1886, No. 150 (3300 marks, Bourgeois); and P. Mersch, Berlin, March I, 1905, No. 102. Now in the Hermitage Gallery, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 896. 140. THE PHYSICIAN'S VISIT. The physician sits on the right, making out a prescription for the sick girl. She sits on the left, leaning her left arm on a table and placing her right hand on her heart. Behind the table is a woman with a glass vessel. On the floor to the left is a pan. The picture has been enlarged, but the central portion is an original. Signed in full at the bottom to the right ; panel, 19^ inches by 18^ inches (without the additions, 16^ inches by 13^ inches). Now in the collection of Count Nostitz, Prague, 1877 catalogue, No. 204. 141. THE PHYSICIAN VISITING A SICK GIRL. Sm. Suppl. 6 ; W. 173. The girl, wearing a green velvet jacket and a white satin skirt, sits in profile to the left in the middle of a large room and rests her head on her right arm. The physician stands on the left, hold- ing a bottle in his right hand ; he turns with an ironic smile to a woman standing to the left who holds her arms under her apron. A fair-haired lad points with his finger at the woman. Upon a table lie a lemon in a dish and a satin cover ; on this is a label inscribed " Daer baet geen medisyn, Want het is minnepyn." (" Medicine is of no avail, since it is love-sickness.") To the right through a doorway is seen a staircase, on which a man is handing a letter to a maid-servant a passage that reminds one of the pictures of De Hoogh and Hoogstraeten. The boy is of a type that frequently occurs. The luminous colour is pleasing. Signed in full upon the label ; canvas, 25 inches by 2o|- inches. A similar picture, not corresponding in every detail, is in the Lierre Museum, No. 60 ; it is a copy after Steen or a painting by Brakenburg. Sale. J. W. Barchman Wuytiers, Utrecht, September 17, 1792, No. 55 (52 florins, Cotterel). Included in the catalogue of the Schwerin Gallery since 1792. Now in the Schwerin Museum, 1882 catalogue, No. 974.