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 372 GODFRIED SCHALCKEN SECT. The girl wears a lace cap "a la Fontange." Her face, which is turned to the spectator, is illumined by the reddish light of a candle which she holds in her right hand. Dark background. Signed in full on the left at foot ; canvas, loj inches by 9 inches. Bought at a sale in 1818. In the Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut, Frankfort-on-Main, 1900 catalogue, No. 225. 213. A YOUNG LADY DRAWING ASIDE A CURTAIN. Sm. 52. Three-quarter length, turned slightly to the left. With her right hand she draws aside a large curtain ; in her left hand is a lighted candle. She wears a dress cut low at the neck and trimmed with lace, and a pearl necklace. On the extreme right is another curtain. " This super- lative production of art is finished with the most elaborate care, and is in every other respect a matchless work of the master" (Sm.). Panel, 12^ inches, by 9^ inches. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1826 and 1827. Sale. Le Brun, Paris, April 15, 1811 (4801 francs). Imported into England by Nieuwenhuys, 1814. Sold by Sm. to Lord Charles Townshend. Sale. Lord Charles Townshend, London, 1819 (267 : 153.). In the Royal collection, Buckingham Palace, London, 1885 catalogue, No. 172 ; it was in the Royal collection, 1833 (Sm.). 214. A Comely Woman at an Arched Window. A curtain is draped at the window. The woman holds a candle in one hand, and leans with the other on a table covered with a handsome cloth. At the back are two persons ; one of them lights his pipe at a candle, near a charcoal pan with live embers. Panel, rounded at top, u| inches by 7^ inches. Sales. A. van der Werff van Zuidland, Dordrecht, July 31, 1811, No. 90 (80 florins, Van der Werff). H. van der Werff, Rotterdam, April 19, 1816, No. 22 (60 florins 10, Van den Berg). 215. A Girl at a Window. Sm. 57. She holds a candle. Canvas, 10 inches by 8 inches. Sales. (Possibly) The Hague, September 26, 1752 (Terw. 66), No. 14 (17 florins 15). Philip Panne, London, March 20, 1819 (jCiS: 1 8s.). 215*. A Young Girl at an Arched Window. With one hand she raises a drapery ; in the other she holds a lighted candle. She looks attentively out of the window, which is adorned beneath with a relief. A fine effect of light. Sale. Paris, March 28, 1845, No. 63 (396 francs). 216. A Woman leaning over a Half-Door. She holds a candle in one hand and shades the flame with the other hand. [Possibly identical with 2 1 1.] Panel, 10 inches by y| inches.