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 520 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. Described as a Vermeer by W. Burger, Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1866, vol. xxi. p. 553, No. 24. He had not seen it himself, but owed the description to his friend Cremer, who regarded the picture as by Vermeer, and remarked : " Excellent : doubtless some weakness in the drawing of the hands and some faults in the shadowed part, but what colouring ! In all respects a Vermeer. The bodice is lemon yellow, the skirt red ; there is a glitter of light on the figure. The signature ' P d' Hoogh ' is old, but probably false." Blirger, writing in 1 866, said that the picture had been some years before in the possession of the Berlin dealer Kurt, who asked 30,000 francs for it, and had vainly offered it to the Brussels Museum in 1861. Compare "The Music-Party" in the Copenhagen Museum (125). 164. The Music- Party. Two ladies are seated at a table ; one plays the mandolin, the other has a music-book. Behind them stands a man playing the harpsichord. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling. On the music-book, in elegant letters, may be read the word " Favola." Canvas, 34 inches by a6| inches. Formerly in the collection of Count SchOnborn of Pommersfelden, No. 424 in the 1857 catalogue (where it is ascribed to a supposed "Tavola," though probably by P. de Hooch). Sale. SchOnborn of Pommersfelden, in Paris, May 1867, No. 59. 165. The Concert. Two ladies and two gentlemen are at music in a room. The room lies in shadow ; a terrace opening out of it looks on a sunlit canal. A young man, protecting his eyes with his hand from the glare of light, looks into the far distance. Canvas, 26^ inches by 32 inches. Sale. Herman de Bristol, Paris, February 2, 1874, No. 30. 1 66. The Music-Party. Sm. 7. In a handsomely furnished room two well-dressed ladies play the guitar. One, standing with her back to the spectator, wears a white silk dress. The other, who is seated with a music-book in her lap, wears a yellow silk dress and a pink petticoat. Behind her stands a cavalier in black ; he has in his right hand a glass of wine, and with his left puts the straw-covered wine bottle on a table covered with a Turkish carpet, upon which are a tray and a lemon. Behind the table, in shadow, a young man stands singing a duet with a young woman who sits beside him. An arched doorway at the back looks upon a canal and a sunlit quay, on which a waggon with four horses is drawn up. Signed over the door P D HOOCH fecit " ; canvas, 38 inches by inches. [Compare Havard, 120, i.] Sales. Abbe Gevigney, Paris, 1 779 (697 francs). Marquis de Salamanca, Paris, June 3, 1867 ; sold again under name of "Salamanca Collection and others," Paris, January 25, 1875, as being " ascribed to P. de Hooch." 167. The Dancing Dog. Before a table, on which are placed music- books, fruit, and a jug, sits a young lady wearing a satin dress and a red cap adorned with white ostrich feathers. She listens to a gentleman,