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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 505 in. THE PARROT. De G. 28. In the middle of a well-furnished room sits a gentleman with a clay pipe in his hand, facing left. He turns his head towards a comely girl who stands behind him on the right, holding a jug in one hand and a cup in the other. To the left a young lady sits at a heavy oak table, the cloth of which is half folded back, upon which are an earthenware bottle and a glass. Behind the table, to the left, a negro boy stands at the open window taking down a cage. The cage-door is open, and a parrot leans out to take a piece of cake from the young lady. On the wall hang two pictures and a mandolin. The picture is of the latest period. Signed on the cross-bar of the table " P. D. HOOCH *' ; canvas, 26 J inches by 22 inches. Sales. (Probably) Amsterdam, May 7, 1804, No. 74 (84 florins, Van Yperen) ; this, however, was 25^ inches wide, so that it must have been cut down on either side if it is the same picture. Meynts, in Amsterdam, July 15, 1823, No. 45 (105 florins, Hopman). Purchased in England, 1884. Now in the collection of Consul Weber, in Hamburg, No. 255 in 1892 catalogue. 112. LADY, SERVANT -GIRL AND CHILD, WITH A PARROT. Sm. 57. In the back wall of a room an open door looks on a canal and a church-tower rising beyond it. Beside the door sits a young lady, wearing a red velvet jacket trimmed with white fur and a silk skirt. To her left is a table with a Persian carpet, upon which stands a cage holding a parrot. Behind the lady on the right is a servant-girl holding a child by the arm. The girl and child stand before an old Dutch cabinet of dark brown wood the same cabinet that is represented in Mrs. Joseph's picture (187) upon which is some earthenware, and above which hangs a picture. Another picture in a gilt frame hangs over the door. The ceiling is of wood, the walls are grey ; to the left is a window. Canvas, 28 inches by 24 inches. Now in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, at Montague House, London, where it was in 1833 (Sm.). 113. THE FAVOURITE PARROT. Sm. Suppl. 6 ; de G. 50. In the left-hand corner of a room stands a table with an Eastern carpet and a white cloth. Upon it are cheese, fruit, plates, and other objects. A young man with a slouch hat sits behind the table, drinking a glass of wine. Behind him is a chimney-piece ; upon it stands some Chinese porcelain, and above it hangs a picture of a nude woman recumbent. In the right foreground there are bottles and glasses on a little table, and a silver dish on the floor. At a half-opened window to the left stands a young woman, in a red jacket trimmed with ermine, feeding a parrot, which looks out of its cage-door. The woman scratches the parrot's head with her left hand, and with her right soaks a crust in a wine-glass which a girl, standing more to the right behind the table, holds across to her. With her left hand this girl supports a little child who stands on a chair, watching the parrot being fed. A dog jumps up to the chair. By the