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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 497 picture from the Van der Hoop collection (71), and having similar green curtains. This picture also is of the best period, about 1665, and recalls the larger picture in the Louvre (255). The figures are stiff. Canvas (?), 21 inches by 23! inches. In the collection of the late Rodolphe Kann in Paris purchased as a whole by Duveen Brothers of London, August 1907. 75. A YOUNG MAN DRESSING. In a room with gilt leather hangings and a yellow wooden floor, a woman with her back to the spectator is making the bed. She wears a pink jacket, a yellow skirt, and a red petticoat. The bed has dark green curtains with gold fringes. To the left sits a young man, in red hose, who pulls on a riding-boot ; the other boot and a slipper lie near, and his cloak is on a chair at his right. The type of man, as well as the colour, most of all reminds one of P. de Hooch. The picture is unquestionably by the same hand as that in the Michel collection in Mainz (270). The treatment of the ground and of the slippers is equally convincing. The picture is of the earliest period. Panel, 16 inches by 21 inches. Probably the picture of the L. de Moni sale, 1772 (79). Given to the Tsar Alexander I. in 1818 by Prince W. S. Troubetzkoy as a portrait of Peter the Great painted during his stay in Holland by Adriaen van de Venne. Ascribed to Martin van Veen in the 1838 catalogue of the Hermitage. In the 1863 catalogue and later ascribed to J. van Craesbeeck on the strength of a mistaken assertion of Waagen's. Rightly assigned to P. de Hooch by Dr. W. Bode. Now in the Hermitage Palace at St. Petersburg, No. 943 in the 1901 catalogue. 76. THE TOILET. To the left of a room a girl stands, facing the spectator, before a toilet-gl^ss on a table covered with a Persian carpet. She looks straight before her as she adjusts her hair. Her red jacket, edged with white, lies on the table. Farther back in the middle of the room a young woman sits by the fireplace, fastening the cap of a little girl who stands before her with her back to the spectator. The woman has a basket of vegetables on her lap, and a brass pail of fruit on a chair to her right. Pictures hang above the fireplace and above a door in the left- hand corner. This open door shows a fine view, through an ante-room, of a canal bordered with trees. From the ceiling hangs a cage ; the floor is of black and white tiles. It is a characteristic work of the late period. Signed to the left on the table, " P d'hooch " ; canvas, 29^ inches by 24 inches. Mentioned by Waagen, p. 415. Now in the collection of Prince Jussupoff in St. Petersburg. 77. THE SICK WOMAN. In an arm-chair in the middle of a room sits a sick woman facing the spectator. She wears a white jacket and a blue skirt, and is supported by pillows. To the right stands a physician in a red costume with a red cap, who feels her pulse. To the left, behind a folding screen, a servant-girl, with her back to the spectator, is making the bed. In front of her is a table with a Turkish carpet, on VOL. i 2 K