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 484 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. 27. PLUCKING THE DUCK. Sm. Suppl. 2. To the left sits a woman, wearing a red skirt, a light bodice, and a white kerchief and apron. She is plucking a duck, which lies in a dish on her lap. Behind her to the left is a .chest on which stand a basket of apples and a beer-jug. From the left the sunshine pours in through a half-opened window, and illumines the wall behind the woman and a landscape hanging upon it. To the right is a fireplace with a pillar on either side. A servant-girl in a brownish-yellow dress, with her back to the spectator, is putting a kettle on the glowing peats. On the right is a chair. Above the fireplace hangs a large landscape which, like the landscape behind the woman, is partly cut off by the frame of the picture. The floor is paved with black and white tiles. A late picture. Canvas, 21 inches by 25 inches. Sale. P. Fouquet, jun., in Amsterdam, April 13, 1801. Described by Sm. from a drawing, probably the water-colour in the possession of C. Hofstede de Groot, which is signed on the left-hand wall "P. de Hoogh pinx. J. Buys f. 1779." Now in the Danzig Museum, No. 79. 28. MOTHER WITH A CHILD AND A SERVANT-GIRL. Sm. 39 (?) ; de G. 33. A woman, wearing a red jacket and a light blue skirt, sits by the hearth feeding an infant with a spoon. To the right a servant-girl, dressed in a brownish-grey dress and a blue apron, is showing her a flat fish. In the right foreground is a cradle with a coloured coverlet. At the back a door leads to the sunlit street. A woman with a basket on her arm is going past and looks in. To the left is a fireplace with a fire burning ; behind the figures is a folding screen. Upon the wall hang three large pictures. The figures of the woman and child, with bluish tones on the faces and reddish lips, and the painting of the distance also, show that it is a late work. It is a feeble picture. Canvas, 36^ inches by 33^ inches. Sale. The widow of W. Valckenier, nee Elis. Hooft, Amsterdam, August 31, 1796, No. 14 (200 florins, Roos). In the Artis collection. Purchased by King Frederick V. of Denmark from the dealer M. G. Morell, who was afterwards keeper of his picture gallery. Now in the Copenhagen Museum, No. 152 in the 1904 catalogue. 29. HOUSEWIFE WITH A SERVANT-GIRL. De G. 35. To the right in a room sits a lady with a dish of vegetables on her lap. She is giving an order to a servant-girl who, basket in hand, is about to go out to the left. An open window looks on a landscape, with a river, a bridge, over which a man on a grey horse is riding, and a distant church tower. It is a late work. Canvas, 26 inches by 22 inches. Sale. S. J. Stinstra, Amsterdam, May 22, 1822, No. 85 (60 florins, De Vries). Bequeathed in 1873 by Alexandre Leleux to the Lille Museum. Now in the Lille Museum, 1893 catalogue, No. 406 (old No. 279).