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 486 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. long rind in her right hand to a little girl standing to the left and seen in profile. A tub is on the floor at the woman's feet. To the left is a fire- place with a kettle on the fire. The fireplace is lined with Delft tiles, and is enclosed with pilasters worked in low relief. Behind the woman hangs a mirror in a black frame. The sunlight enters through a window above to the right and illumines the wall and a corner of the mirror. The floor is composed of brown and white tiles. The picture is in a very dirty condition. Its general effect is fine. It is somewhat similar in style to the Weissbach picture (4), but not so charming in subject ; it is of the same period as the Six picture (25). Canvas, 26 inches by 21 inches. Mentioned by Waagen, Supplement, p. 87, in the collection of the Marquis of Hertford, who bought it from C. Perrier in 1848 (for 283 : ios.). Described by Btlrger, Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1866, vol. xxi. p. 561, as a Vermeer, No. 1 6. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1893, No. 55. Now in the Wallace collection, London, No. 23 in the 1901 catalogue. 34. THE BOY BRINGING ROLLS OR APPLES. Sm. 45 ; de G. 54. The picture shows a room, the wall of which is almost filled by a high window with coats-of-arms on the right, and by the open house-door on the left. At the door stands a boy with long hair looking towards the spectator ; he wears a white cap, a grey jacket and frock adorned with coloured ribbons. He holds in his hand a basket of rolls or apples, which a young woman, leaning forward and seen in lost profile, is taking from him. She wears a black silk hood, a black velvet jacket, a red silk skirt, and a white apron. The door looks on a path, paved with tiles and bordered with a fence, which leads across the courtyard to the entrance hall under a stone doorway decorated with a coat-of-arms. Beyond is a canal, on the other side of which a woman stands behind the half-door of a house. In the right foreground is a chair with a cushion. The whole scene is dominated by the red and black of the woman's costume. There are bluish tones in the shadow. It probably dates from 1665 j it is more vigorous in tone than the other picture in the same collection (33), and is probably somewhat earlier. The coat-of-arms over the doorway is or, a fess azure. The arms on the window bear the inscription, to the left "Cornelis Jansz" or "Jac.," to the right "Marnie," or "Maerti." To the left is the mono- gram of the man's family : an "M," from the midst of which rises a shaft bearing a small "c" and ending in a "4." To the right is that of the woman's femily : in a lozenge, a shaft, with two cross strokes above and two strokes meeting at an angle below, has an " M " to the left and a " C " to the right. Canvas, 29 inches by 23 inches. Sales. M. T. Andrioli, widow of Jan Cliquet, in Amsterdam, July 18, 1803 (800 florins, C. S. Roos). Van Brienen van de Grootelindt of Amsterdam, in Paris, September 8, 1865, No. 14 (50,000 francs). Now in the Wallace collection, London, No. 27 in the 1901 catalogue.