9 o JAN STEEN SECT. 328. A Boy removing Vermin from a Dog's Coat. Panel, 7^ inches by 6 inches. Sa/e.M. Wolff, Berlin, May 25, 1857, No. 625. 329. Children skating. Carefully executed in a warm tone. Signed. In the MacLellan collection, Glasgow, in 1854 (Waagen, iii. 290). But no such picture is in the Glasgow Art Gallery, which acquired the MacLellan collection. 330. THE POULTRY-YARD. Sm. 183 ; W. 13. A little girl, in a straw-coloured dress, with a white apron and kerchief, is seated on some steps in a courtyard adjoining a chateau, which is seen through an archway in the background. She offers a bowl of milk to a lamb. At her feet are two little boys, one of whom is licking up the milk that runs over. The girl is surrounded by poultry of all kinds ; chickens, turkeys, and pigeons come from the background ; there are ducks in the water in the foreground ; a peacock is perched on a tree on the right. Near the tree is an old man, with a basket of eggs and a green jug, who converses with the girl. Another old serving-man with fowls under his arm stands to the left on the top of the steps, and looks down with a smile on his young mistress. His clothes are ragged, his limbs deformed, and he looks like a dwarf. The identity of the chateau is uncertain ; it must be sought near Leyden. Signed in full and dated 1660 ; canvas, 42^ inches by 32^ inches. Described by Ch. Blanc. In the collection of the Stadtholder William V. Now in the Royal Picture Gallery at The Hague, 1895 catalogue, No. 166. 331. A Poultry-Yard. Pigeons are being fed. Very carefully executed and true to nature, especially the birds. Formerly in the collection of H. A. J. Munro (Waagen, ii. 137), but not in the sale in London, June I, 1878. 332. A WOMAN DARNING A STOCKING. The woman, seen in profile, sits on a low chair, darning a stocking which rests on her lap ; one of her feet is bare. A man sits near her. Panel, 17 inches by loj inches. Purchased in 1875 for the Dublin National Gallery. Now in the Dublin National Gallery, 1898 catalogue, No. 227. 333. THE WOMAN AT HER NEEDLE. Sm. Suppl. 87 ; W. 27. This is supposed to represent Jan Steen and Mariette Herculens. A girl with a sewing-pillow on her lap is seated to the left in a room ; near her on the floor are a red jacket trimmed with white fur, a basket, a copper pan, and a pair of scissors. From the right approaches a man who takes off his hat to the girl and holds a cake in his left hand ; she looks embarrassed. On the wall is a picture ; in the left-hand corner is a bed ; through an open door is a garden. Both the figures are very delicately rendered. The belief that the figures represent Jan Steen and
