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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 493 well rendered. jj';The effect is natural, and the execution delicate and vigorous. Canvas, 33 inches by 28^ inches. Sales. Piet Calkoen, Amsterdam, September 10, 1781, No. 64 (208 florins, Calkoen). J. M. Quinkhardt, in Amsterdam, December 19, 1798, No. 13 (320 florins, Pothoven). Paul van Romondt and others, in Amsterdam, May 1 1, 1831, No. 10. J. G. Voigt, in Amsterdam, October 16, 1837, No. 38 (1200 florins, Brondgeest). In a private collection, Amsterdam, 1833 (Sm.). Sale. Paris, February 4, 1851. 62. Woman with a Child at her. Breast, and a Servant-Girl. To the left in a room is a woman, wearing an indigo-blue and scarlet dress, with a child in yellow at her breast. At her right is a cradle. To the left of it is the fireplace with a mirror above it, and farther to the left is a dog. In the middle distance a servant-girl is making up the fire. In the background to the right is a bed ; to the left a well-lighted staircase leads to an upper room in which there is a chair by a window. It is an excellent work. Canvas, 22 inches by 26 inches. Mentioned by Waagen as in the Phipps collection (ii. 227), and by Burger, Tresors d 1 Art, p. 319. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857. Sales. Helsleuter (Van Eyl Sluyter ?), Paris, January 25, 1802, No. 71 (1020 francs). Ph. Panne, London, March 26, 1819, No. 34 (^174 : 6s.). Edmund Phipps, 1859 ( I 77> Cuyp). [Note. The catalogue descriptions have been amplified from a sketch made by the late Sir G. Scharf at Manchester in 1857.] 63. Interior. A woman is warming herself, while a servant-girl shows her a salmon. A map of Friesland bearing the date ijj2(?) hangs on the wall. 24^ inches by 2i| inches. Sale. D'Aigremont, March 4, 1861 (165 francs); see Havard, 105, i. 64. A Mother hushing her Child, and a Maid-Servant, in an Interior. In the middle of a homely room a young mother sits facing the spectator, with her left foot on a stool. She is giving her infant the breast. The mother wears a bright red bodice trimmed with ermine, a pink satin skirt, with silvery reflections, a pale blue apron, and a white cap. A maid-servant, dressed in a grey skirt and yellow bodice, stands beside her, showing her a bundle of asparagus. In the right foreground is the cradle. To the left, in the shadowy middle distance, the father sits by the hearth, attending to the spit. In the left foreground a dog drinks from a pail ; near it are a red earthenware pot and a broom. On the wall above the chimney-piece hangs a bird-cage. In the right background an