i JAN STEEN 27 6f)c. Cupid Reposing. Canvas. Sale. Amsterdam, August 15, 1825, No. 244 (12 florins). 70. Ascanius and Lucilla. W. 218. Panel, 13^ inches by 9^ inches. Sales. W. Fabricius, Haarlem, August 19, 1749, No. 26 (19 florins). J. van Zaanen, The Hague, November 16, 1767, No. 17 (with a pendant of " Bathsheba " [14], 80 florins). 71. Vertumnus and Pomona. Half-lengths, powerfully rendered ; according to the catalogue, one of the artist's best works. Canvas, 31 inches by 25 inches. Sale. J. A. van Dam, Dordrecht, June I, 1829, No. 120 (bought in for 65 florins). 72. Ceres seeking for Proserpine. Ceres drinks with avidity the wine mingled with honey that an old woman of Eleusis offers her. To the left a boy mocks her and is by way of punishment transformed into a lizard. Ceres's torch diffuses soft light over the scene. It is one of the artist's best works. Canvas, 27 inches by 22^ inches (about). Sales. Chevalier Donner, Seigneur de Beez, Antwerp, May 27, 1777, No. 115 (26 florins). F. A. E. Bruynincx, Antwerp, August I, 1791, No. 81 (40 francs). 73. ERYSICHTHON SELLING HIS DAUGHTER (Ovid ?). W. 409. In a landscape is a man with a green wreath about his brows. Before him kneels a woman with a man who gives money to the hermit. The accessories include three large loaves, a Bible on the right, a large jug, and a basket containing apples and herrings. Canvas, 25^ inches by 24 inches. Sales. Coenraad Baron Droste, The Hague, July 21, 1734, No. 39 (64 florins 10). Van Zwieten, The Hague, April 12, 1741, No. 207 (60 florins). In the possession of the dealer Fischhof, Paris. Now in the Hoogendijk collection at the Hague, No. 237. 74. The Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Sm. Suppl. 57 ; W. 105. The composition represents the moment when the princess is about to be immolated, in obedience to the vow of the king her father. She is clothed in white and kneels at the altar. The executioner stands near. One of her maids, in a yellow silk robe, kneels before the altar, lamenting. Several spectators stand around her ; among them is a youth weeping bitterly. The king sits at the side, leaning on his staff in a melancholy attitude and treating with indifference the proffered consolations of a priest. The statue of the goddess Diana, erected between two pillars, is at the extremity of the group. Dated 1671 ; canvas, 48 inches by 63 inches (about 48 x 60, Sm.).
