2 6o GABRIEL METSU SECT. him. In the middle distance is a triumphal car, in which Bacchus and Venus are seated ; it is drawn by two swans, which Cupid drives. A satyr and a woman play on the triangles. The figures are life size(?). Canvas, 31 inches by 41 inches. Sale. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 260. a. Vertumnus and Pomona. Sm. 102. Said by Sm. to have been engraved by J. Watson ; but the only print of this subject among Watson's works, as described by G. Goodwin (No. no), is after C. Netscher, not after Metsu. 15. Galatea admiring her Reflection in the Brook. Signed "Metsu" ; panel, 10 inches by 12 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April I, 1833, No. 113 (i florin, Wolff). 1 6. Minerva. A half-length figure, with a garland of flowers. Canvas, 36^ inches by 30 inches. Sale. P. van Romondt, Amsterdam, May 1 1, 1835, No. 14(120 florins, Keyzer). 17. A WEEPING WOMAN IN A SMITHY. A blacksmith, wearing a red cap in which is stuck a clay pipe, approaches a weeping woman and gives her a piece of paper, an ink-pot, and a pen. The woman sits in the right foreground on a chair, to which she is firmly fettered with an iron ring round her hips. She wipes her eyes with her handkerchief, and laying the other hand on her heart, seems to beseech the smith to release her. Another smith is working in the half-light beside the forge. This is an unpleasant early work, reminding one somewhat of J. B. Weenix and also of the picture in W. Burger's collection (2). Signed in full on the anvil j canvas, 42! inches by 48 inches. See Bode, Studien^ p. 191, etc. Formerly in the collection of Gustavus III. of Sweden. Now in the National Museum, Stockholm, 1900 catalogue, No. 512. 18. VENUS AND AMOR IN VULCAN'S SMITHY. In a rocky grotto Vulcan stands at an anvil in the left foreground j he is forg- ing weapons, which are partly completed and lie on the ground. He lifts up his hammer to strike. In the right foreground is his assistant beside the fire. In the right-hand corner of the foreground stands Venus, turning away from the spectator ; Amor is with her. It resembles most closely the picture of a smithy at Stockholm (17). Signed in full in the left-hand upper corner; panel, inches by 13 inches. Sales. N. van Breemen, Amsterdam, December I 5, 1766, No. 12 (30 florins, Ketelaar). Huybert Ketelaar, Amsterdam, June 19, 1776, No. 134 (4 florins, Helt). Schonlank, Cologne, April 28, 1896, No. 117 (810 marks, Peil of DUren).
