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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 479 Attributed to G. van Schaagen ; according to the new catalogue the picture bears a monogram, consisting of the letters I. v. H. B., which are combined in the manner of Huchtenburgh's monogram. This monogram is not obvious. Irrespective of that, the picture must be regarded as an early work by De Hooch, which corresponds in every way with Mr. Fleischmann's picture (269). [Compare also 245.] Now in the collection of the Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, London, No. 140. 10. A WOMAN CUTTING BREAD AND BUTTER FOR A BOY, WHO IS SAYING GRACE. Sm. 54 j deG. 48. In a room with a window at the back sits a woman, wearing a dark jacket and a blue skirt. She has a loaf of bread in her left hand, and is taking a piece of butter from a plate on a chair at her left. To her right stands a boy with folded hands, clasping his hat to his breast. The room is in subdued light. The open half-door of a passage with tiled floor beyond looks on the street ; the ground before a house opposite is illumined by sunshine. Although the picture has not the brilliant effect so much esteemed, it is a very pleasing and satisfactory example. Canvas on panel, 26 inches by 20^ inches. Mentioned by Waagen, Supplement, p. 342. Sales. Amsterdam (Hoet, ii. 288), April 16, 1750 (52 florins). Jan Gildemeester Jansz, Amsterdam, June n, 1800 (415 florins, Yver). A. Meynts, Amsterdam, July 15, 1823 (1450 florins, Brondgeest). In the collection of the Baron J. G. Verstolk van Soelen, The Hague, sold in 1846 as a whole to Thomas Baring, Humphrey Mildmay, and Lord Overstone. Sale. Humphrey Bingham Mildmay, ; London, June 24, 1893, No. 30 (^2625, Colnaghi and Lawrie). Now in the Drummond collection, Montreal. 11. INTERIOR. Sm. 43; cf. deG. 73. In the foreground of a room, with a window at the back, sits a woman with a child in her arms. In spite of its good quality the picture produces very little of the effect which one admires in other works by the artist. It is a pendant to 309. Canvas, 28 inches by 22 inches. In the Van Loon collection, Amsterdam, 1825. It is apparently in one of the collections of the Rothschild family in Paris (see Havard, The Rothschild Collection, p. 92). 12. A YOUNG WOMAN BESIDE A CRADLE AND AN OLD WOMAN AT THE FIRESIDE. In the centre of the foreground stands a cradle covered with a black and red cloth. It is being rocked by the mother, dressed in a black jacket and red skirt, who sits to the left. She has a book on her lap, and turns her head slightly backwards to the right, towards an older woman, dressed in a brown velvet jacket edged with white and a white cap, who stands by the fireplace and takes a spoonful of pap from a little bowl. In the right background is the fireplace, with an iron back, in which a kettle hangs over a great fire