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 xix GODFRIED SCHALCKEN 329 Canvas. Sale. Comte de Turenne, Paris, May 17, 1852, No. 85 (50 francs). 640. A Sleeping Bacchante. Several dancing figures at the back. Very finely rendered. Panel, 18 inches by 15 inches. Sale. Von Scheibler, Aachen, September 13, 1842, No. 8 1. 65. CERES AT THE OLD WOMAN'S COTTAGE. Ceres, dressed as a peasant girl, stands at the cottage door, drinking out of a bowl. She holds a candle in her left hand. Opposite to her stands the old woman, also holding a candle. Near her stands a nude boy, Stellio, who points mockingly at Ceres. In the right foreground are various utensils. Near the door is a tree. The full moon shines over the cottage. Dark sky. Probably an early work. Panel, 16 inches by 14^ inches. In the collection of Noel Desenfans, London, 1802 catalogue, No. 128 as a work of G. Dou. In the Dulwich College Gallery, London, 1892 catalogue, No. 191 (old No. 238). 65*. Ceres with the Old Woman on Mount Etna. Torch- light. In the distance the moon rises above the horizon. Panel, 23 inches by 21^ inches. Sale. J. A. Bennet, Leyden, April 10, 1829, No. 43 (27 florins, Van den Berg). 66. CERES SEEKING FOR PROSERPINE. Sm. 93.- She is turned three-quarters left, and holds in her left hand a basket of fruit and ears of corn. In her right hand she holds up a blazing torch. She wears a large hat. Her arms are bare. In the left distance are trees on the edge of a cornfield. Signed in full ; canvas, 13^ inches by 10 inches. In the collection of Louis XVI., King of France. In the Louvre, Paris, 1872 catalogue, No. 479 ; valued by the experts in 1816 (at I ooo francs). 66a. Ceres in the Forest. The sun's rays fall on her. Finely rendered. Canvas, i6 inches by 13 inches. Sales. (Possibly) (Supplementary) Reygersbergen van Cauwerven, Leyden, July 31, 1765, No. 41. Utrecht, April 22, 1811, No. 104. 67. DIANA AND HER TRAIN. The goddess, holding her bow and arrow, walks to the left through the wood. In the right middle distance the nymphs are resting. Panel, 33 inches by 24^ inches. Sale. Mattheus van der Broucke, Dordrecht, June 17, 1717 (Hoet, i. 211), No. 5 (600 florins). In the Bisschop collection, Rotterdam, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 530).