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 xx PIETER VAN SLINGELAND 455 In one of the Prussian Royal palaces. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1911 catalogue, No. 8540. 122. CHILDREN BLOWING BUBBLES. At a window- opening are a boy in a bright purple dress, blowing bubbles, and a girl. To the right a Turkish hanging is looped up ; to the left is a pot of flowers. Below is a relief of children playing with a goat ; the relief is precisely similar to those which occur in Dou's pictures. Panel, 1 1 inches by 8| inches. In the collection of Prince Liechtenstein, Schloss Feldsberg. 123. BLOWING BUBBLES. Sm. 31. A little boy and girl stand at a carved table, blowing soap-bubbles. The boy, who wears a plumed cap, stands on the left. He holds in his left hand a mussel-shell full of soapsuds, which he blows with a reed in his right hand. The girl stands behind the table, leaning on it lightly with her left elbow. She looks with a smile at a large bubble which rises in the air, and she points to it with her right hand. In her left hand she holds a little earthenware pot. On the table are mussels and little balls. In the left foreground is a chair, on which lies a large pig's bladder. Signed in full, and dated 1661 ; canvas, yj inches by 6 inches. Engraved by Forster. In the Uffizi, Florence, 1910 catalogue, No. 888. 124. A BOY HOLDING A JUG WITH A BIRD'S NEST. Half-length. A boy of about ten stands behind a balustrade. He wears a dark jacket over a white under-garment and a small white cravat. His hair falls on his shoulders ; his hat lies on the balustrade in front of him. He holds fast in his left hand an earthenware jug containing a bird's nest, at which he looks with a smile ; a bird perches on his up- lifted right hand. At the back is a wall ; to the left is a view of a garden. " Broadly executed ; an early and unusually attractive picture of the master ; harmonious and bright in colour." Panel, rounded at top, 6 inches by 4^ inches. In the Dulwich College Gallery, London, 1892 catalogue, No. 116 (old No. 151). 125. A Boy with a Mouse-Trap. Sm. 13. On the bank of a stream sits a boy, holding a mouse-trap in his left hand and lifting a dead mouse by the tail in his right hand. His head is bare ; the water flows over his naked feet. He looks with a smile straight before him. In the right foreground is a thistle. In the left middle distance is the rocky slope of a hill. Cloudy sky. 7! inches by 6 inches. Engraved by Guttenberg in the Le Brun Gallery. Sale. Destouches, Paris, March 21, 1794. 126. An Interior. With various domestic accessories. At the side are a boy and girl. At the back is a pump. Among the accessories the copper pots are very finely rendered.