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 496 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. Formerly in the Van der Hoop collection, Amsterdam. Now in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest ; No. 1250 in the 1905 catalogue (formerly No. 685). 72. THE BEDROOM. To the right a young woman is making a bed. She has taken the clothes from a bed enclosed in a wooden parti- tion, and has laid them over a chair. She stands in profile to the left, and smiles at her little girl, who stands in the open doorway to the left with an apple in her left hand. The child's figure is illumined from a high window on the left and from a door in the background. This door leads from a little ante-room into the open air, where walls and garden hedges are visible. In the left foreground is a table with a jug ; behind it is a chair. Signed to the left on the table-leg with a monogram of the letters P and H (apparently genuine) ; canvas, 19^ inches by 25 inches. Mentioned by Parthey, 1863 (i. 622, 3). According to a letter from K. Koelitz, the picture belonged to the reigning house of Baden in the eighteenth century. Now in the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery at Karlsruhe, No. 259 in the 1894 catalogue. 73. LADY AT HER TOILET, SURPRISED BY HER LOVER. De G. 57. At a toilet-table to the left sits a young lady in a blue silk skirt and a red jacket trimmed with fur. As if startled, she lays her right hand on her bosom, and turns her head to a gentleman who has suddenly entered behind her, laying his hand on her right shoulder and taking off his hat in greeting. He wears a yellow leather doublet with a red sash, a bandolier, and embroidered sleeves. Upon the table, covered with a red Persian carpet, are a toilet-glass, a casket from which hangs a pearl neck- lace, a watch, a heavy candlestick, a round box, and a brush. In the left- hand wall is a half-open window. On the back wall is a picture with a curtain j through an open door, beyond two ante-rooms, is seen a land- scape, with a canal and fields beyond. To the right are a bed, a chair, and a little dog j the floor is paved with tiles. It is a late work. Signed on the table-leg " P. D. Hooch "; canvas, 2o inches by 24 inches. It is said to have been acquired as booty after the battle of Vittoria by the Duke of Wellington in 1813 ; but this statement in the Apsley House catalogue does not agree with the sale entries given below. Exhibited at the British Institution in 1821 and 1852 (see Athenteum for June 26, 1852), and at the London Guildhall Art Gallery in 1892, No. 77. Sales. H. Muilman, in Amsterdam, April 12, 1813 (201 florins, Reyers). W. Reyers, in Amsterdam, September 21, 1814, No. 61 (205 florins, Nieuwenhuis). Now in the collection of the Duke of Wellington at Apsley House, London, No. 9 (p. 31) in the 1901 catalogue. 74. TWO FIGURES AND A DOG IN A BEDROOM. De G. 71. A woman stands at a window to the right ; a man sits to her left beckoning to a dog. On the left is visible another room with gilt leather hangings. On the right is a bed, resembling that of the Rijksmuseum