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 xix GODFRIED SCHALCKEN 383 249. AN OLD WOMAN. She comes, candle in hand, to her door, and looks at an impromptu orchestra of boys and girls. Panel, 15 inches by 12 J inches. Sale. Jos. Monchen and others, Amsterdam, April 30, 1907, No. 353. 250. A Young Girl and a Youth. Candlelight. Carefully rendered, but too reddish in colour. [Possibly the " Young Man courting his Mistress by Candlelight," in the sale : Graham, London, March 6, 1712, No. 29 (^64, Duke of Rutland). See MSS. of the Marquess of Ailesbury in Appendix, part 7, to the I5th Report of the Historical MSS. Commission, London, 1898, p. 205. Translator.']' In the collection of the Duke of Rutland, Belvoir, No. 51 ; it was there in 1854 (Waagen, iii. 400). 251. AN OLD WOMAN WITH A PURSE AND A YOUNG MAN. She is seen in full face, by candlelight. The man holds her by the chin. Canvas, 24 inches by 16 inches. In the collection of M. Surmont, Antwerp ; bequeathed to the Ghent Museum in 1902. In the Ghent Museum, 1905 catalogue, No. 136. 252. The Lovers surprised. The lovers, seated on a cask in a cellar, are surprised by a woman. There was no opportunity to determine precisely the genuineness of the picture. Sale. (Possibly) Khalil Bey, Paris, January 16, 1868, No. 98. In the Czartoryski collection, Cracow, No. 173. 253. A CANDLELIGHT SCENE. Half-length. An officer on the left presents jewelry to a lady. On the right is a lighted candle in a large curved bracket. At the back is a bed. [The lady in the centre is in full light, close to the candle, with her head to the left. The officer in profile to the right is in half-shadow. Translator. .] Copper, 6 inches by 7 inches. In the collection of Wynn Ellis ; bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1876. In the National Gallery, London, 1911 catalogue, No. 999. 254. TWO PAIRS OF LOVERS. A young girl, in a white chemise under a red bodice and a loosely fastened skirt, holds a lighted candle. She smiles as she answers a cavalier, in a cuirass over a green doublet, who lays his hand on her shoulder. In the middle distance a soldier with a glass in his hand sits at a table and courts another girl. On the table lie some pieces of gold. At the back an old woman draws the curtains of a bed. Signed, and dated 1689 ; copper, 20 inches by 15 inches. In the collection of P. von Semeonoff, St. Petersburg, 1906 catalogue, No. 474. 255. A Young Gentleman offering Money to a Girl. The girl sits in front of a bed, holding a glass of red wine in her left hand