36 FRANS HALS SECT. Sales. O. W. J. Berg van Dussen Muilkerk, Amsterdam, July 7, 1825, No. 41 (41 florins). Schultz and others, Amsterdam, July 10, 1826, No. 42 (13 florins, Gild). 13 ib. Two Laughing Children. Sale. Rotterdam, April II, 1827, No. 81. 1 3 ic. Three Children at Play. Panel. Sale. Amsterdam, December 3, 1827, No. 25. 131^. Frightened at the Thunder. A little girl is frightened at the thunder. A boy laughs at her. Canvas, 6o| inches by 46 inches. Sale. Brussels, September 27, 1842, No. 5. 1 3 le. Two Boys playing Cards and a Boy with a Beer- Jug. The composition probably goes back to Jan Miense Molenaer. It occurs in a drawing at the Albertina (No. 1274) and in a picture by J. M. Molenaer, an old copy after which was in the sale E. Moll, senior, and others, Amsterdam, December 15, 1908, No. 85. Panel, 14! inches by 22 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April 4, 1854, No. 1 8 (22 florins, Nieuwenhuys). 1317. Children with Cards. Mentioned by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, i. 301. Sale. Fagel, London, May 22, 1801, No. 32 (31 : ios.). 131^. Two Laughing Boys. Canvas, 14 inches by n inches. Sale. The widow Van der Wall and others, Amsterdam, March 17, 1874, No. 31. 132. HEAD OF A LAUGHING CHILD WITH A FLUTE. B. 115. Seen almost in full face but inclined to the left. His face is framed in long dishevelled hair. He looks at the spectator. He holds a fife upright in his right hand. At the back to the left is the head of another child. [A repetition of 124.] Signed with the monogram ; panel, 13 inches by 12 inches. Exhibited at Dttsseldorf, 1886, No. 134. Sales. Neven, Cologne, March 17, 1879, No. 85. Niesewand, London, June 9, 1886, No. 52. 133. THE SMOKER AND HIS GIRL. B. 114; M. 211,212. In the centre is the head of a youth, seen almost in full face but inclined to the left. He holds a long clay pipe in his left hand. Behind him to the left is the head of a girl looking at him. Her left hand rests on his left shoulder. In the right background the head of an old woman is sketched in light green. Behind the heads of the youth and girl is a curtain. Very expressive and broadly painted. In excellent preservation. Dated by Bode about 1625.
