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 5 i2 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. It is probably the picture that Waagen saw in Buckingham Palace, and described as follows (ii. n) : "'Lady at a Spinet' : the whole composi- tion is in twilight, but it hangs too high and in too bad a light to allow one to form a definite opinion." Signed in full in the left bottom corner, and dated either 1647 or 1667 the later date alone can be right ; 2o| inches by 23 inches. Now in the Picture Gallery at Hampton Court, No. 669 in the 1898 catalogue. 130. The Music-Party. In the collection of the late C. T. Yerkes, in New York. It is perhaps identical with the picture formerly in the possession of Sedelmeyer (132). 131. THE MUSICIAN AND LADIES. To the right in an interior sits a gentleman, in profile to the left, who plays a musical instrument resembling a zither. He is dressed in greyish brown and wears a black slouch hat. To the left at a table stands a woman, with her back to the spectator ; she wears a white cap and collar, a yellow skirt, and a light red petticoat. Behind her and almost concealed from view by her figure is a man, whose glass she fills with wine j on the left another woman in profile to the right, wearing a light greenish-grey dress, sits at the table and pours wine into his glass. In the background to the right is a table with a striped cover of light and dark green ; a gentleman in black clothes goes out through an open door. On the wall hang a map and a mirror in a black frame. A painted frame with a yellowish green curtain encloses the scene. It is a very early work, if genuine ; but its authenticity is not above suspicion. Canvas, 26 inches by 21 inches. Formerly in the possession of the dealer W. Abraham, London, and in the collection of Norman Forbes Robertson, London. In the possession of the dealer F. Kleinberger, of Paris, in June 1899. 132. THE MUSIC-PARTY. At an open window to the left, in a fine hall paved with tiles, sits a gentleman facing the spectator. He plays a mandolin. Upon a table covered with a Persian carpet is a glass of wine ; a cloak hangs over a chair placed before the table to the left. On the right of the table sits a young lady in a satin dress and jacket, with a music-book in her lap ; she raises her right hand and seems to be singing. To the right behind her stands a violinist. In the right foreground is a little dog which was painted out. Farther to the right an open door looks upon a canal and a house on the opposite bank. Over the door hangs a picture ; a map is on the wall. Signed "P. de Hooch 1670" ; canvas, 17 inches by 2o| inches. In the collection of Arthur Kay, Glasgow. In the possession of the dealer H. O. Mietke, Vienna. In the catalogue of a hundred paintings shown by the dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, of Paris, in 1902, No. 22. [Compare 130.] 133. A CONCERT. De G. 76. A table covered with a Smyrna carpet, stands in the left-hand corner of a room between a half-opened