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 498 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. which are a plate of oranges, a glass, and an object resembling a basket. A fire burns in the hearth to the right. There is no view through door or window. The picture is of the late period ; the flesh-tones are bluish, and several passages are heightened with red. Signed half-way up on the right, by the fireplace, " P d Hooch " ; canvas, 26 inches by 22 inches. Now in the collection of P. von Semeonoff, St. Petersburg, 1906 catalogue, No. 227. 78. THE BEDROOM. Sm. 29, 55. This picture is similar in all respects to the picture at Karlsruhe (72), except that the little mirror hanging at the side of the bed has no ornament at the top and bottom. It has every sign of authenticity. Canvas, 20 inches by 23 inches. Mentioned by Waagen, ii. 71. Sales. S. J. Stinstra, in Amsterdam, May 22, 1822, No. 86 (25 florins, De Vries). Lord Radstock, at Christie's, in London, 1826 (70 guineas) ; 1827 (bought in at 150). Said by Smith (in 1833) and by Waagen to be in the collection of Lord Stafford, but not mentioned in the book on this collection which is still at Bridgewater House. Sales. Amsterdam, April 24, 1838 (3311 florins, Brondgeest). E. P. Cremer, in Middelburg, May 17, 1847, No. 8. Field, London, 1856 (^43 : is.). C. Scarisbrick, in London, May 1861 (441, F. N.). Adrian Hope, in London, June 30, 1894, No. 32 (2257 : ios., C. Wertheimer). In the 1898 catalogue of 300 paintings of the dealer Sedelmeyer of Paris, No. 70. Now in the collection of P. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia. Probably a second version of Mr. Widener's picture was included in the above-mentioned sales, for it is impossible that the picture was first in Holland, then in England, then in Holland again, and finally in England. This second version was not the picture at Karlsruhe, which, according to the director of that gallery, was in the possession of the Baden reigning house in the eighteenth century. Possibly it was an old copy which was in the hands of a London dealer about the year 1900. [Compare also the small picture in the Munro sale (86 and 84).] 78*7. A Bedroom. Inventory of sale of Hans aux Brebis, in Amsterdam, May 7, 1678, valued by Johannes Rosa at 25 florins. (Communicated by A. Bredius.) 79. A Room in which a Woman is making the Bed for a Sick Man who sits near. [Compare 75.] Panel, 16 inches by 20 inches. By P. de Hooch or in his manner. Sale. L. de Moni, in Leyden, April 1 3, 1 772 (20 florins, Van der Vinne). 80. Gentleman and Lady in a Bedroom. To the right a lady in bed converses with her husband who is sitting in his night-gown on a