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 442 PIETER VAN SLINGELAND SECT. beside him sits a child. At some distance from this group a little girl with her hands under her apron is about to follow her mother, who goes away to the right background where the landscape is seen through a small window. Among the various accessories are, in the centre, a copper pot and a tub ; to the left is a copper pot on a cask. Farther away hens are perched here and there on a cart and on blocks of wood. Also there are cabbages, a pail, and so on. In the right foreground lies a dog. Panel, 14 inches by 20 inches. Sale. D. van der Schrieck of Louvain, Brussels, April 8, 1861, No. 101 (445 francs, Dirksen). 69. A Kitchen. On the floor is a still-life group, consisting of a fruit basket, cabbages, apples, an axe, a terra-cotta vase, and part of a blue cur- tain. On the wall are a pot and a kettle with a hole in it. Panel, 10 inches by i inches. Sale. Dr. van Cleef, Paris, April 4, 1864, No. 86 (600 florins, Schouten ; bought in). 70. A Dutch Kitchen. On the right, near a high chimney-piece, a maid-servant stands at a table on which are an overturned pewter pot and a pewter dish for vegetables. The maid scolds a little dog, holding out a gnawed bone which she has picked up and from which he has eaten the meat. A chair, vessels, and a large number of other things complete the picture. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 19^ inches by 15! inches. Sale. Neven, Cologne, March 17, 1879, No. 187. 71. The Ironing Woman. In a room to the left beside a tall chimney-piece are a pot and a pair of bellows. To the right, on an upturned cask covered with a white cloth, are a pewter coffee-pot, an axe, and a dish of meat. On the floor near the cask lie a straw hat, a bowl, and other things. At the back the washerwoman irons linen on a table. In front of her to the left sit two persons, one of whom lights a pipe. All the objects accumulated in this picture are rendered in their minutest details with finished delicacy. Panel, 13 inches by 10 inches. Sale. Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, May 9, 1881, No. 473. 72. A Woman frying Pancakes. Sm. Suppl. 8. An elderly woman, seen almost in full face, sits frying pancakes. She wears a red dress and a blue apron. Beside her to the left sits a child in a brown dress and a large hat. In the background at her side are some pieces of wood, a pan, and a dish of butter. "Painted in a broad and free style of handling" (Sm.). [Pendant to 73.] Signed with the monogram ; panel, 17 inches by 14 inches. In the collection of Madame de Haan-Bierens, Amsterdam, 1842 (Sm.) ; sold under the name of her father D. Bierens, Amsterdam, November 15, 1881 ; this was No. 18. 73. A Garret. Sm. Suppl. 9. An old couple are in a garret. The man, wearing spectacles, reads aloud. His wife, wearing a red dress and a