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 xix GODFRIED SCHALCKEN 379 Canvas, 13 inches by io| inches. Sale. (Supplementary) Amsterdam, April 12, 1842, No. 147. 233^. A Young Girl at the Fortune-Teller's. An effect of light. Canvas, 21 inches by i6 inches. Sale. M. Wolff, Berlin, May 25, 1857, No. 342. 233-?. The Vegetable- Woman. She holds a candle to light a man who unpacks a basket. Panel, 12 inches by 9 inches. Sale. Treuer and others, Frankfort- on-Main, April 27, 1891, No. 93. 234. The Market- Woman. In a hall an old woman sits with her girl-helper at her stall, by candlelight. A maid-servant pays for a purchase. Beside the maid a lighted lantern stands on the ground. On the right two boys, who have just bought something from the old woman, are going away. A fine effect of light. [Probably identical with 234^.] Canvas, 19! inches by 16 inches. Sales. F. Baudri and others, Cologne, June 14, 1875, No. 313. The widow Marie von Robert and others, Cologne, March 27, 1893, No. 270. 234^. In the Smithy. Three men work in an interior brightly illumined by the fire of the forge. Canvas, 19 inches by 17 inches. Sale. D'Eve and others, Cologne, March 27, 1893, No. 270. 234^. A Market- Woman. With other figures at a stall. Lamp- light. [Probably identical with 234.] 19! inches by 15^ inches. Sale. Earl of Cork and Orrery, London, November 25, 1905, No. 31. 235. A YOUNG LADY AT HER TOILET. Sm. 105 and Suppl. 5. She sits in profile to the left at her toilet-table, on which stands a lighted candle. She raises her left hand to attach an ear-ring, and looks into a mirror held by an old woman at the table to the left. Behind the lady to the right stands a young gentleman, who with his right hand puts an ostrich-feather into the lady's hair, and holds an ear-ring in his left hand. At the back are a chimney-piece, an oval picture, and a bed. Signed in full on the left at foot ; canvas, 30 inches by 25 inches. Engraved in mezzotint by N. Verkolje ; lithographed by P. A. Beretta in the Recueil Desguerrois. Sales. The Spanish Ambassador, The Hague, 1726 (265 florins) possibly confused by Sm. with the next sale. The Hague, May 3, 1729 (Terw. 6), No. 60 (265 florins). In the collection of Benjamin da Costa, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 470). Sale. B. da Costa, The Hague, August 13, 1764 (Terw. 378), No. 63 (810 florins, Haag for the Stadtholder). In the collection of William V., The Hague (Terw. 710). In the Royal Gallery, The Hague, 1910 catalogue, No. 159.