88 JAN STEEN SECT. Signed in full (according to Parthey); panel, 18^ inches by 16^ inches. Sales. Seger Tierens, The Hague, July 23, 1743, No. 182 (38 florins; pendant to No. 181). A. Meynts, Amsterdam, July 15, 1823, No. 123 (550 florins, Emmerson, with pendant). Stadnitzky and Muller, Amsterdam, May 16, 1831, No. 94 (127 florins, Lelie). In the collection of H. Phillips, London, 1833 (Sm.). Sales. Hudtwalcker, Hamburg, 1861. M. Neven, Cologne, March 17, 1879, No. 191. 319. Girl with Cat. A young girl holds up a cat by the fore-paws and pulls its ear. Panel, 10^ inches by i inches. Sale. Treuer and others, Frankfort, April 27, 1891, No. 98. [Compare with these cat pictures the picture of the Hopken Melenberg sale, Berlin, 1891, and that of the London sale, 1899, among the domestic scenes (400, 401); and the "Family with a Cat," at Budapest, among the open-air merrymakings (525).] 320. THE LAUGHING BOY. A small octagonal picture. Apparently by Jan Steen or J. M. Molenaer ; in any case showing the influence of the school of Frans Hals. Now in the Widerberg collection, Christiania. 321. CHILDREN AT PLAY. Exhibited at Rotterdam, 1899, No. 15. Now in the Hoogendijk collection, The Hague. 322. THE BOY EATING TREACLE. Sm. Suppl. 93 ; W. 24. A boy with a torn apron, having a basket of fish on his left arm, has dipped his right hand into a pot of treacle held in his left, and is lick- ing his fingers. At his left is a little girl with smiling face, who carries some cracknels and pastry in her pinafore. To the right is a baker's shop with a signboard. In the background are a stone gateway and peasants' cottages amidst bare trees. There are black clouds in the sky. Signed in full on the step of the shop ; canvas, 26^ inches by 19^ inches. According to Westrheene, a drawing of the same subject by Jan Steen was in the possession of J. de Vos, Amsterdam, probably a copy made from the picture. Exhibited in Amsterdam, 1845, No. 112. Sales. Amsterdam, June 20, 1810, No. 79 (300 florins, A. Roos). Amsterdam, April 29, 1817, No. 95. J. Moyet, Amsterdam, April 12, 1859 (in Moyet's possession in 1842, Sm.). Formerly in the collections of Nikolaus Hudtwalcker, Hamburg, and of Johann Wesselhoeft, Hamburg. Now in the Hamburg Kunsthalle, Wesselhoeft's catalogue, 1889, p. 51. 323. The Mussel-Eater. Sm. 202 ; W. 385. A boy and a girl
