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 xix GODFRIED SCHALCKEN 335 gipsy woman, turned to the right, who has brought back the girl. She points with her right hand to the girl's breast. In the left foreground is a marble bowl of roses. On the ground farther to the right lie a sheet of paper and some jewels. Signed in full ; panel, rounded at top, i6| inches by 12 inches. Sales. London, 1818 (168). A. Levy, London, June 16, 1876 (120 : 153.). In the Irish National Gallery, Dublin, 1898 catalogue, No. 4.76; bought in 1898. 89. Portia destroying Herself. Sm. 60. Life size. Exquisitely finished. Sale. Wanstead House, 1822 (58 : i6s., Peacock). 90. Brutus and Caesar's Ghost. In a room lighted by a Roman lamp Brutus sits at a table, near which hang his arms. The lamplight falls on his face ; most of the room is in half-shadow, in which appears the ghost of Caesar, at whom Brutus looks with a defiant air. Signed, and dated 1705 ; canvas, 28 inches by 25^ inches. Sale. A. Lohle and others, Munich, November n, 1907, No. 60. 91. Lesbia weighing Jewels against her Sparrow. Sm. 47. See Catullus, Carmen iii. Half-length, seated, with the head turned three-quarters left. She leans her right elbow on a pedestal adorned with a relief of childish figures. She holds in her right hand a pair of scales ; the sparrow in the scale in front has weighed down the scale full of jewels. With her left hand Lesbia places a pearl necklace on the higher scale. In the right background is a wooded landscape. " Exquisitely painted " (Sm.). Panel, 6^ inches by 5 inches. In the collection of Griffier Fagel, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 412). Sales. Griffier Fagel, London, May 22, 1801, No. 40 (53: us.); see Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, i. 304. Philip Panne, London, March 20, 1813 (^79 : 5s.). Afterwards bought by Sm. In the collection of Richard Simmons, 1833 (Sm.). ; bequeathed to the National Gallery, London, 1846. In the National Gallery, London, 1911 catalogue, No. 199. 92. AN ALLEGORY OF CHASTITY (or, THE USE- LESS REMONSTRANCE). Sm. 83. On the left sits an elegant young lady, turned slightly to the right beside a column. She wears a blue dress, cut low at the neck, with a yellow sash. She leans her right arm on a table with a red cover, and holds a casket partly open, from which a green bird, the symbol of chastity, is about to escape. On the right, beside the lady and turning towards her, stands an old woman in a red dress trimmed with fur, who is seen in profile. She holds a large book under her left arm and a crutch in her left hand. She raises her right hand as if to warn the lady of her danger. In the left background is a statue of the laughing Priapus. To the right is a view of a landscape at evening. [Pendant to 144.] Signed in full to the left at foot ; panel, 14 inches by 1 1 inches.