i JAN STEEN 103 Sales. The Hague, April 24, 1737, No. 89 (40 florins). Van Zwieten, The Hague, April 12, 1741, No. 205 (36 florins). J. L. van der Dussen, Amsterdam, October 31, 1774, No. 3 (835 florins). Nieuhoff", Amsterdam, April 14, 1777, No. 190 (650 florins, Fouquet). Poullain, Paris, March 15, 1780 (2600 francs). De Clesne, Paris, December 4, 1786 (1800 francs). H. van Maarseveen, Amsterdam, October 28, 1793, No. 3. Baron van Brienen van de Grootelindt of Amsterdam, Paris, May 8, 1865 [it was in this collection in 1833, Sm.]. Purchased in 1865 for the Brussels Museum. [A copy was in the Hautpoul sale, 1905.] Now in the Brussels Museum, 1900 catalogue, by Wauters, No. 444. 386. A Woman Seated. W. 433. A pretty little picture. Sale. Graaf van Hoogendorp, The Hague, July 27, 1751, No. 154 (22 florins 10). 387. An Interior. A woman sits with a charcoal-pan on her lap and listens to a boy who sits beside her reading aloud. A fine picture. Panel, 12 inches by 9! inches. Sale. Louis Fabricius du Bourg, Amsterdam, January 15, 1776, No. i (8 1 florins, Yver). 388. [Identical with 258.] 389. A Man by the Fireside paring his Toe-nails. Panel, nj inches by 9^ inches. Sale. St. Loquet and others, The Hague, September 8, 1789, No. 16 (2 florins, Proot). 389*. A Domestic Scene, full of humour. Sm. 81 ; W. 364. Sale. Mrs. Gordon, London, 1808 (79: i6s.). 390. An Interior. W. 459. A woman is teaching a boy to write. He sits before a cask. The woman holds a jug in her hand. Panel, 8 inches by 7 inches. A pendant to " The Drunkard " of the D. de Jongh sale (750). Sales. J. Alenzoon, Leyden, May 10, 1774. D. de Jongh, Rotterdam, March 26, 1810, No. 40 (73 florins 50, Van Yperen, with pendant). 391. A Mother teaching a Child to Read. Sm. Suppl. 53 ; W. 391. Three women and a child are assembled in the fore-court of a house. At the end of it is an archway through which are seen several persons and a landscape background. In front sits a woman with a ferule in one hand ; she stretches out the other to a child in the middle of the group. Behind the child stands an elderly woman, wearing spec- tacles, who holds a book. Described (Sm. 1842) from a drawing after a picture.
