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 xviii CASPAR NETSCHER 203 little girl stands beside the flowers and plucks one. Near her sits a younger child wearing a garland. Finely rendered. [Pendant to 158.] Canvas, 2y| inches by 21 inches. Sale. C. Beudeker, Amsterdam, May 30, 1855, No. 72. 155*. A Boy offering an Orange to a Little Girl. In an interior. Canvas, 15^ inches by 13 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, March 2, 1869, No. 62. 155^. A Boy and a Girl weaving Garlands of Flowers. The girl has put a garland on her head and is about to put another on a goat lying at her side. To the right is a fine go-cart of carved wood. The children are in a park near a fountain. Canvas, 26 inches by 13^ inches. Sale. Bos, Amsterdam, February 21, 1888, No. 118. 156. FOUR CHILDREN WITH A DOG AND A CAT. Sm. Suppl. 37. They are at an open window, with a Persian carpet thrown over the sill. On the extreme right a girl fondles a cat. Beside her a younger girl leans her right arm on the carpet. To the left a third girl raises her left hand. On the extreme left is a boy in a plumed cap ; he is turned three-quarters right and with his left hand strokes a dog sitting to the right on the window-sill in front of him. Above to the left is a vine ; above to the right is a drapery. In the right background is a view of a landscape under an evening sky. A " beautiful work of art " (Sm.). Signed in full, and dated 1668 ; panel (?), 17 inches by 13 inches. A replica is in the Amalienstift, Dessau, 1877 catalogue, No. 674 wrongly- attributed to Constantijn Netscher. Another replica on canvas is in the possession of the New York dealer C. Macbeth ; it was formerly in the collection of J. L. Muyser, The Hague, and was exhibited at Utrecht, 1894, No. 405. Pictures, the description of which agrees with the above, and which may have been identical with this picture or with one or other of the replicas, occurred in the following Sales. Samuel van Huls, The Hague, September 3, 1737 (Hoet, i. 483), No. 52 (31 florins). Amsterdam, April i 5, 1739 (Hoet, i. 84)^(10 florins) described as a portrait of Netscher's own children. Van Nispen, The Hague, September 12, 1768 (Terw. 673), No. 28 but No. 78 of the original catalogue (3 1 florins, with a copy after Netscher) on canvas ; not an original, according to Terw. D, Paris, April 3, 1869, No. 43 (52 francs). In the Hodshon collection, Amsterdam, 1842 (Sm.). Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1867, No. 143 ; then in the Roell collection. Sale. The dowager Roell, born Hodshon, Amsterdam, April 25, 1872, No. 17 (1500 florins). In the collection of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Paris.