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 xix GODFRIED SCHALCKEN 377 226^. A Young Girl with a Lighted Candle. Half-length. Canvas, 2i| inches by 16 inches. Sale. Dekan Wiehl, Munich, January 18, 1911, No. 116. 226/1 A Girl with a Candle. Her head and bosom are brightly illumined by a candle, the flame of which is shaded by her right hand. Half-length ; full face. Canvas, 19 inches by 16 inches. Sale. Richter, Lohmeycr, and others, Cologne, May 29, 1911, No. 84. 227. A Boy with a Burning Stick. Sm. 101. Half-length, turned to the left. He holds the stick in his left hand, and blows up the flame to light a candle which he holds in a metal candlestick in his right hand. Exhibited at Leeds, 1868, No. 696. In the collection of Earl Spencer, Althorp ; it was there in 1833 (Sm.). 228. THE BOY WITH THE SPLINTER. Into a dark interior a boy brings a glowing splinter. He blows at it, so that the sparks fly about. In his right hand is a small candlestick. To the left is a table. Signed to the left on the table ; canvas, 12 J inches by io| inches. Bought from a private collection in Amsterdam, 1888. In the Novak collection, Prague, 1903 catalogue, No. 77. 229. A Little Boy blowing at Glowing Embers. Sm. 21. [Pendant to 223.] Panel, 18 inches by 14 inches. Sale. Due de Choiseul, Paris, April 6, 1772 (600 francs). 230. A Little Girl playing with a Doll. Sm. 27. At a table on which stands a lighted lamp. [Pendant to 159.] Panel, 9^ inches by 8J inches. Sales. Randon de Boisset, Paris, February 3, 1777 (1200 francs, with pendant). Prince de Conti, Paris, April 8, 1777 (1200 francs, with pendant) see Ch. Blanc, i. 382. Destouches, Paris, March 24, 1794 (265 francs). 230*7. A Boy with a Candle. He lights it at a fire. Panel, 10^ inches by n inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April i, 1833, No. 157 (2 florins 75, WolfF). 230^. A Boy with a Candle. He wears a brown doublet. He leans on a window-sill, and holds a book in his right hand and a candle in his left. Canvas, 28 inches by 2i| inches. Sale. Cremer and others, Cologne, January 20, 1892, No. 170.