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 578 ADRIAEN BROUWER SECT. 490. A Woman baking Cakes. An especially good picture with many figures. [Possibly identical with 52 or the copy.] 13^ inches by 15 inches. Sale. Picter de Klok, Amsterdam, April 22, 1744 (Hoet, ii. 134), No. 72 (20 florins 50). 49*. A Peasant and a Woman seated at a Cask. Peasants at the back. Very natural. A small picture. Sale. Amsterdam, April 2, 1754 (Terw. 87), No. 71 (10 florins 50). 49*:. A Peasant Family. A man, a woman and two children, one of whom is asleep in a cradle. In the collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, in 1758 ; J. Kennedy's catalogue, No. 5. 49^/. A Woman baking Cakes. Several children. Panel, n inches by 17 inches. Sale. P. Bout, The Hague, April 20, 1779, No. 191 (l florin 2). 49< A Man wiping a Child. Another man sits by the hearth in the right background. Of exceptional delicacy. Panel, 9 inches by 8 inches. Mentioned by Descamps, ii. 139. In the collection of La Bouexiere. Sale. Steyaert, Paris, March 14, 1843, No. 5. 50. A Cottage Interior. In front of a wide hearth, in which a bright fire burns, sits a woman holding a pan in which she cooks pan- cakes. She wears a black dress with a short fur-trimmed overskirt. In front stands her husband speaking to her ; he wears a green doublet, red breeches and a cap placed awry on his head. In the background sits a man with a wrinkled forehead. On the floor are a dish of pancakes, a spoon and a pan of dough. On a shelf on the back wall are jugs and kitchen utensils ; a jug and a candlestick hang underneath. Panel, 12 inches by 9 inches. In the collection of the Hon. Long Wellesley. Sale. Th. Patureau, Paris, April 20, 1857, No. 3. $o. A Woman spinning and an Old Man. He sits by the hearth examining vegetables. In the Motz collection, Bremen, 1858 (Parthey, i. 207). 50*. A Woman cleaning her Little Daughter. She sits outside a Dutch cottage. Near her lies a dog. In the middle distance the father leans on a board and looks on. Panel, 7 inches by 8 inches. Sale. Hopken-Melenberg and others, Berlin, May 6, 1 892, No. 67. "^-51. THE TOILET. To the left of an interior, a woman sits in profile to the right ; she wears a white cap. She combs the hair of a