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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 511 his right ; she has her music-book in her lap, and wears a greenish bodice and a yellow silk skirt. Between the two men is a boy, and behind him a couple. From the right comes a little dog. At the back of the hall a flight of stone steps goes up through a door. A second door on the right shows a well-lighted room, in which a young couple stand. Above these doors a copy of Raphael's " School of Athens " is let into the wall. According to Dr. W. Bode, the picture dates from about 1662 to 1665. Canvas, 32 inches by 27 inches. Described by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 262. Sales. Pierre de Grand Pre, Paris, February 16, 1809 (2620 -francs, Paillet). James, London, 1892 (Thieme). In the collection of the late A. Thieme at Leipzig, No. 45 in the 1900 catalogue ; see the introduction by Dr. W. Bode, p. 32. 127. THE WOMAN PLAYING THE VIOLONCELLO. This fragment of a late picture represents a lady, turned to the left in lost profile and dressed in white silk, and, on the right, another lady playing the 'cello. On a table is a Persian carpet. In the collection of the late A. Beit in London. 128. THE MUSIC-PARTY. De G. 58. This is a composition of eleven figures in an interior. To the left is a high marble chimney- piece supported by two ornamented pilasters. Upon it are two marble busts, over which hangs a picture. Beside it is a bed with red curtains, above which is a woman's portrait. At the end of the room is a lofty window with red curtains. To the left are two ladies and two gentlemen, who are playing and singing. To the right is another cavalier, who takes a lady by the hand. Near him sits a gentleman at a table, behind which a gentleman and a girl are embracing. In the middle of the picture a lady, kneeling on a chair, converses with a gentleman who holds a glass in his right hand. The window looks out upon trees. Two dogs gambol in the foreground. Two coats of arms are depicted : one is a chevron or on a field gules ; the other, in a lozenge, has three stars argent on a field azure. The picture is a very late work, towards 1670. Signed "P De Hooge" ; canvas, 41 inches by 53 inches. Compare 139. Purchased by the first Duke of Wellington through Ferol Bonnemaison in Paris, 1818. Exhibited at the British Institution in 1821, 1829, 1847, 1856 ; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1888, No. 53. Described in the Athenezum for June 14, 1856, and February n, 1888. Now in the collection of the Duke of Wellington at Apsley House, London, No. 36 in the 1901 catalogue, p. 323. j 29. THE MUSIC-PARTY. De G. 59. A lady sits in the middle of the picture playing a lute. Behind her is a gentleman playing a violin, and to the right is another lady with a lute, having her back to the spectator. To the left, by an open door, a dog lies in shadow ; outside, a man sits in the sun. It hangs so high that a definite judgment was im- possible. So far as one could see from the floor the picture is genuine, but late.