Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 5, 1913.djvu/468

 4S 2 PIETER VAN SLINGELAND SECT. Panel, rounded at top, 6 inches by 5 inches. In the Van Loon collection, Amsterdam, 1842 (Sm.) ; the collection was bought as a whole by the Rothschilds. 112. A Girl with a Parrot at a Window. At a window, partly covered by a red curtain which is looped up at the side, a young girl with a cheerful face holds a cage in one hand and a fine parrot on the other. She wears a plain yellow jacket ; her sleeves are turned up to show her shapely arm. Of great delicacy and perfect finish. Panel, 9 inches by 7 inches. Sale. Heris, Brussels, June 19, 1846, No. 68. 113. A Young Girl with a Parrot. In a recess a young lady with fair hair, dressed in a rich morning robe, feeds her parrot which is in a cage on a table. A fine cat, seated beside her mistress, casts a greedy look on the favourite bird. Behind the lady a black man-servant holds an owl in his right hand. A rich curtain fills the upper part of the picture. A masterpiece. Signed in full on the back, and dated 1672 j panel, 6 inches by 5 inches. In the collection of Baron de Heusch. Sak.C. R. Ruhl, Cologne, May 15, 1876, No. 98. 1130. A Girl with a Parrot. Panel, 12 inches by 9! inches. Sale. A. von Keller and others, Frankfort-on-Main, May 17, 1904, No. 80. 114. LOVERS BY CANDLELIGHT. Sm. Suppl. 13. In a room a young woman, seen to the knees and turned to the right, sits smoking a long clay pipe. Beside her to the right sits a young man in a red costume and a black hat. He looks into a large jug which he holds with both hands on his knees. Behind him stands an old woman who lifts her finger at the young woman with a reproachful gesture. On a cask are a lighted candle, tobacco, and a pipe. On a table to the left are onions, a cabbage, and a copper pail. Beside the hearth at the back are a woman, a girl, and a dog. The three figures in front are seen to the knees. Wrongly assigned to Schalcken in the following sales and there- fore by Ch. Blanc, and at first by Sm. (Vol. IV. Nos. 51 and 98). Panel, 8 inches by 10 inches. Exhibited with the collection of the Duchesse de Berry, London, 1834, for private sale. Sales. De Julienne, Paris, March 30, 1767 (2410 francs, Abbe Leblanc) ; see Ch. Blanc, i. 140. Gaignat, Paris, December 2, 1768 (i 500 francs); see Ch. Blanc, i. 149. Villeminot, Paris, 1805 (4800 francs, Paillet) ; see Ch. Blanc, ii. 234. Sold privately from the collection of the Duchesse de Berry, London, 1834 (280, George Stone). Sale. London, 1846 (267 : 155., Nieuwenhuys) ; see Art Sales, ii. 327. In the collection of Sir Thomas Baring, who bought it from Nieuwenhuys, 1849. In the collection of Lord Northbrook, London, 1889 catalogue, No. 140.