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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 521 standing behind the table, who sings to the accompaniment of his lute. A spaniel in the foreground dances for the tit-bit which his mistress holds out to him. The group is illumined from a window high up on the left, which is half-hidden by a green curtain. An open door at the back looks on a garden terrace. A boy, with a dog looking up at him, looks in at the door. Signed "P de Hooghe " ; canvas, 24 inches by 18 inches. Sales. Carl Triepel, in Munich, September 28, 1874, No. 12. Lepke, in Berlin, November 17, 1875, No. 13 (161 marks). 168. THE WOMAN WITH THE GUITAR. In the right foreground of a well-furnished room, with a floor of coloured tiles, sits a woman playing the guitar. She wears a gaily coloured dress and faces the spectator. Behind her is a bed in an alcove enclosed by red curtains. Beside her is a dog stretching himself. At a table covered with a plush cloth, in the window embrasure to the left, a young girl fills a goblet for a young man who stands talking to her. Near them is a man with a flageolet, who stops to listen to the jesting couple. The closed window looks into another room and, beyond it, into the distance. It is a late work. Signed " P. de Hoogh " ; canvas, 26^ inches by 22 J inches. Sales. Frans van de Velde, in Amsterdam, September 7, 1774, No. 44 (48 florins, Brondgeest). Ad. Schuster, of Brussels, and others, in Cologne, November 14, 1892, No 74. 169. BEDROOM WITH A WOMAN AT THE HARPSI- CHORD. De G. 49. By a window on the right of a handsome room sits a lady at a harpsichord. She wears a morning dress and red jacket, and has her back to the spectator. The room is paved with tiles ; a red curtain hangs at the window. A table covered with a cloth stands near with a jug upon it ; a chair is close by. Over the harpsichord hangs a picture in a richly carved frame. On the left of the room a man is lying in a bed with red curtains. His clothes and sword are on a chair beside him. Behind the door clothes are hanging, and a dog lies asleep. The large open door in the middle of the picture shows two other rooms, on the tiled floor of which the sunlight marks out a rectangle. In the further room a servant-girl is sweeping, with her face to the spectator. From the ceiling hang two brass chandeliers. " The brilliancy of the morning sun is diffused in the most magical manner throughout the several apart- ments. An admirable work of art" (Sm.). Canvas, 38 inches by 43^ inches. Ascribed by Sm. Suppl. ix. 574 to Emanuel de Witte. Sale. J. Kleinenbergh, in Leyden, July 19, 1841, No. 71 (2100 florins plus 10 per cent, Brondgeest, according to Sm. ; but, according to the catalogue, 2100 florins plus 7^- per cent., Roos). In the collection of the Baron J. G. Verstolk van Soelen, The Hague, sold in 1846 as a whole to Thomas Baring, Mildmay, and Lord Overstone. Sale. H. Bingham Mildmay, London, June 24, 1893, No. 31 (^735, P. and D. Colnaghi).