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 xix GODFRIED SCHALCKEN 24*7. The Virgin praying. Half-length. Canvas, 27 inches by 21^ inches. In the Palace, Hanover, 1864 (Parthey, ii. 500). 25. THE HOLY FAMILY. On the right is the Virgin with the Child on her lap. She shows Him to a shepherd standing before her. In the centre is Joseph with a lighted candle. To the left is a boy with a turtle-dove. Panel, 1 6 inches by 13 inches. Sale. Merlo, Cologne, December 9, 1891, No. 227 (100 mark). 25*7. The Virgin. The Virgin in a red dress with a coloured wrap round her shoulders holds the Child in her arms. On the wall is an oil lamp, giving a feeble light. Panel, 6 inches by 5 inches. Sale. Fritz Gerstel and others, Berlin, January 21, 1908, No. 192. 25^. The Virgin with the Child. 19^ inches by 14^ inches. Sale. London, March 18, 1912, No. 61. 26. SALOME WITH THE HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. She carries the head on a dish which she rests on her hip. She looks at a maid-servant with a candle who, with her finger on her breast, is speaking to the princess. In the shadow is the headsman with his sword on his shoulder. Salome wears a red silk dress and a loose yellow striped cloak. Life-sized figures, seen to the knee. Canvas, about 43^ inches by 35 inches. In the Moltke collection, Copenhagen, 1885 catalogue, No. 53. 26a. The Head of John the Baptist. A small picture. Sale. M. Terwesten, The Hague, September 20, 1757, No. 260. 27. Christ and Nicodemus, by Candlelight. Panel, 19 inches by i6J inches. Sale. Alfred Burger and others, London, December 20, 1909, No. 106. 28. Christ and the Centurion of Capernaum. Christ sits in a room conversing with the centurion at a table on which stands a lighted candle. Panel, i6| inches by I2| inches. Sate. Lemper tz the elder, Cologne, October 17, 1898, No. 283. 29. Christ in the House of Martha and Mary. Christ, in profile to the left, sits in the background of the kitchen, and speaks to the busy Martha, who enters from the right with a spit and asks her sister to help her. Mary sits devoutly beside Christ, looking at a book on her lap and pressing her right hand on her bosom. To the right is the hearth ; a maid-servant kindles the fire. According to the catalogue, the heap of kitchen utensils in the foreground and the rest of the still-life were painted by Willem Kalff.