46 JAN STEEN SECT. Signed in full upon the table-leg to the left ; oak panel, 25 inches by 2O inches (a piece has been added on the left-hand side). A picture corresponding with this in its dimensions and details was in the Baron de Beurnonville sale, Paris, May 9, 1881, No. 489 (canvas, 24 inches by i8 inches). Purchased by the Emperor Nicholas II. Transferred in 1895 from the Lasiensky Palace, Warsaw, to the Hermitage. Now in the Hermitage Gallery, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1844. 127. The Rejected Offer. Sm. Suppl. 72 ; W. 133. A young man approaches a house, at the half-door of which stands an elderly woman holding a bag of money. She seems to be tempting him, and has grasped him by the cloak, but her allurements are rejected with a smile. Panel, oval, 9 inches by 7 inches ; pendant to 128 (Sm. Suppl. 71). Sale. J. Kleynenbergh, Leyden, July 19, 1841, No. 216 (with pendant, 503 florins, Smith). Sold by Smith to Henry Labouchere. 128. The Rejected Offer. Sm. Suppl. 71 ; W. 132. A young woman stands at the half-door of a house and listens to the proposals of a well-dressed old man, who wears a cloak and carries a purse at his side. He lays his right hand on his heart and holds his hat in his left ; she repulses him with disdain. Panel, oval, 9 inches by 7 inches ; pendant to 127. Sale. J. Kleynenbergh, Leyden, July 19, 1841, No. 215 (with pendant, 503 florins, Smith). Sold by Smith to Henry Labouchere. 1129. THE PHYSICIAN'S VISIT. Sm. Suppl. 8 ; W. 19. The jhysician, dressed in black, with a brown cloak and a black cap, stands on
- he right, feeling the pulse of a young woman, who sits in a chair and
rests her head on a cushion lying upon a table beside her. She wears a yellow silk skirt and a grey jacket trimmed with white fur. In the background is a bed ; in the foreground is a foot-warmer. This is one of the best examples of this theme. The picture has suffered by an unduly vigorous restraining of the canvas ; the surface of the paint is broken by many white patches, where the ground shows through (cf. 132). Signed in full in the right-hand top corner ; canvas, 30^ inches by 25^ inches. A copy from the sales of pictures belonging to Percy Ashburnham, R. Hutcheson (London, 1851), and Sir William Domville and others (London, March 6, 1897, No. 125), is in the collection of A. de Ridder, Cronberg, near Frankfort-on-the-Main. Formerly in the Van der Hoop collection, Amsterdam. Now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1903 catalogue, No. 2246. 129*. THE PHYSICIAN'S VISIT. The girl reclines with her head on a cushion near a bed with orange curtains. Behind her is a woman. The perspective of the room is entirely wrong ; the lines run
