ix FRANS HALS 4I Canvas, 37 inches by 50 inches or more probably the reverse. Sale. Amsterdam, June 5, 1765 (Terw. 457), No. 51 (35 florins). 137?'. Shrovetide. Peasants laugh at a dwarf buffoon. Canvas, 36 inches by 30^ inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April 26, 1769, No. 117. 1377. A Scene of Buffoonery. Many figures. A very fine picture. 22 inches by 17 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April 22, 1771, No. 96 (29 florins, Toussaint). 137^. Shrovetide Evening. Various persons singing. Panel, 25 inches by 16 inches. Sale. Willem Adriaan Taree, The Hague, October I, 1777, No. 20 (6 florins). 138. TWO LAUGHING BOYS. B. 14. The boy in front, half-length, is turned almost in profile to the right. His laughing face is turned towards the spectator, but slightly inclined to the left. He wears a soft hat and a jacket. His right arm is thrust back as if the hand, which is not shown, were in his breech-pocket. In his left hand is a coin. Behind him to the left are seen the head and shoulders of a younger boy, with his hair curling in disorder round his bare head. He looks up with a half-wondering laugh at the elder boy, whose figure partly hides his left cheek and chin. Signed in the left centre with the monogram ; canvas on panel, 24! inches by 20 inches. Described and illustrated by Dr. W. Martin in the Burlington Magazine, xiv. (October 1908), p. 60 ; he would date it about 1630-40. Engraved by W. Vaillant. Exhibited at The Hague, 1881, No. 149. Sale. Pieter Lyonet, Amsterdam, April 11, 1791, No. 122 (10 florins 50, Spaan). In the collection of M. Hoofman, Haarlem. Sale. Amsterdam, May 16, 1877, No. n. In the collection of P. N. Quarles van Ufford, The Hague. In the collection of George J. Gould, Lakewood, New Jersey. 139. JUNKER RAMP AND HIS GIRL. B. 13 ; M. 209.- In an interior a young cavalier, seen to the hips, stands feeing three- quarters right. He wears a doublet with lace collar and wristbands, and a broad-brimmed hat with a plume. In his right hand he holds up a wine- glass, at which he laughs heartily. He grasps with his left hand the head of a dog, which is in the right-hand bottom corner. Behind him to the right stands a girl who smiles at the spectator. She lays her right hand on his right shoulder, and touches his left shoulder with her left hand. In the right background is a chimney-piece with two long pictures. In front of it a young man comes forward ; he looks towards the left and carries something. On the left, beside the chimney-piece, hangs another picture. Signed on the edge of the chimney-piece, F. Hals 1623 ; canvas on panel, 42 inches by 31 inches.
