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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 489 Ritter Lippmann von Lissingen of Vienna, in Paris, March 16, 1876, No. 25 (4000 francs). Baron de Beurnonville, in Paris, May 6, 1881, No. 337. D. P. Sellar, in Paris, June 6, 1889, No. 42 (6000 francs). In the catalogue of 300 paintings, in the possession of the dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer of Paris, 1898, No. 73. 41. LADY AND HER COOK. Sm. Suppl. 3; de G. 75. In the middle of the little fore-court, paved with blue and white tiles, of a house on the right, sits an elderly lady, facing half-right. She wears a black jacket, a red skirt, and a white apron ; she has .a green cushion on her lap and a letter in her hand, with a basket of needlework beside her. A servant-girl, dressed in a white bodice and a violet skirt tucked up over a blue petticoat, has come out of the house-door on the right and shows her some fish in a brass pail. To the left, through the half-opened door of a trellis separating the court from the front garden, a brick path leads to a door in the wall opening on a canal. On the opposite side of it is the entrance to a house, before which a young couple are walking. Farther to the right by the canal is a gabled house, which is visible between a tree on the canal bank and a bush in the garden, and overtops the garden-wall. The picture dates from 1658-60. It is a superb work, very warm in tone ; it stands about midway between the Rothschild picture (295) and that belonging to Lady Wantage (297) ; it reminds one also of Lord Straffbrd's picture (299), and of the picture in the National Gallery, London (291). Canvas, 21 inches by i6| inches. Mentioned by Waagen, p. 190. Sale. Mont de Piete, at Paris, 1808 (about noo francs, La Fontaine). Sold soon after to the Tsar Alexander I., for the Hermitage, where it was hung in 1810. Now in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg, No. 860 in the 1901 catalogue. 42. WOMAN WITH TWO CHILDREN AND A SERV- ANT-GIRL IN A ROOM. De G. 82. The woman has one child on her knee, and a cradle beside her. The servant-girl comes into the room with a pail in her right hand. The other child, holding a cat, stands on the woman's right. The passage at the back is in sunshine. To the right is a fireplace ; to the left are two dogs. This is a genuine example, but it is bluish in tone and fairly late. Canvas, 30 inches by 29 inches. Mentioned by Parthey, 1863 (i. 623). Now in the Picture Gallery of the Royal Castle of Schleissheim, near Munich, No. 459 (old No. 414) in the 1885 catalogue. 43. Lady with Servant-Girl. Inventory of Hans aux Brebis, in Amsterdam, May 7, 1678 ; valued by Johannes Rosa at 5 florins. (Communicated by A. Bredius.) 44. A Woman making Pancakes. Sale. Petronella de la Court, in Amsterdam, October 19, 1707 (Hoet, i. 107), No. 58 (123 florins, together with No. 57).