i JAN STEEN 95 In the collection of the Baron Van Verschuer, The Hague. Sale. Verschuer and others, Amsterdam, November 26, 1901, No. 433 (6600 florins, Van Hulk). 352. THE COOK. Sm. 85 ; W. 3. A girl cleans a pewter pot which lies on a cask covered with a cloth. She has turned up her sleeves and looks with a smile at the spectator. On a bench to the right are a lantern, two spoons, and two dishes. To the left is a broom. Signed in full in the right-hand bottom corner j panel, 9^ inches by 8 inches. Described by Blanc. Sales. C. Groeninx van Soelen and others, Rotterdam, June 25, 1800, No. 1 1 3 (78 florins, Van der Pot). G. Van der Pot, Rotterdam, June 6, 1808, No. 121 (255 florins, Stratenus, for the Rijksmuseum). Now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1903 catalogue, No. 2242. 353. THE COOK. A young woman in a red jacket trimmed with fur and a white apron looks away from her work of scraping turnips at a dog which is leaping up at her. To the right is a view of a garden. Evening light. Signed in full ; panel, 12 inches by io| inches. Now in the Leipzig Museum, 1891 catalogue, No. 627, presented by A. Thieme. 354. A GIRL WITH A BASKET ON HER ARM. A half-length. The girl faces the spectator, but looks to the left over her right shoulder, so that the head is seen slightly raised up in a half-lost profile. Her neck is bare ; over her shoulders is a white cloth. On her right arm, the sleeve of which is tucked up, she has a basket, which she seems to rest on a balustrade. The background is dark. To the right is a landscape distance. Traces of the signature apparently visible in the right-hand bottom corner ; panel, 14 inches by 12 inches. Now in the collection of Leon Pininsky, Lemberg (A. Bredius). 355. An Interior. A woman is cleaning fish. In the foreground a cat is sniffing about ; a dog lying under the table watches it. Carefully and broadly rendered. Panel, 18 inches by 24 inches. Sale. Utrecht, April 22, 1811, No. 109. 356. A Kitchen, with a Girl peeling Apples. Near her are a pairjfof lovers and a boy. Panel, 21 inches by 27^ inches. Sale. A. Oberman and others, Amsterdam, March 31, 1846, No. 109 (62 florins, Derkse). 3560. A Kitchen. In the foreground a woman is baking cakes ; a little girl sits on a bench beside her and shows her a piece of cake ;
