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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 523 Sale. J. Hauptmann, in Paris, May 4, 1891. In the catalogue of 300 paintings belonging to the dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, in Paris, 1898, No. 72. Sale. Baron Konigswarter of Vienna, Berlin, November 20, 1906, No. 44 (18,500 marks). 172*7. AN INTERIOR. Two women are conversing at the fire- side to the left. In the background is a corridor ; a man sits to the right near a staircase. [Compare 67.] Canvas, 28 inches by 33 inches. Formerly in the Granet collection, Aix, Provence. Now in the Museum at Aix, Granet bequest, 1900 catalogue, No. 359. 173. YOUNG LADY IN A VESTIBULE RECEIVING A LETTER. Sm. 51, Suppl. 22; de G. 7. A lady, wearing a light blue jacket and a red skirt, sits in the farther right-hand corner of a vesti- bule paved with tiles. A dog lies on her lap ; a bigger dog stands to the left. Through a door on the right a man-servant, hat in hand, enters with a letter. The scene is lighted from a window and from the street- door on the left, outside of which stands a child with a whip. Through the door are seen the trees by the canal and the sunlit houses on the other side of the street, which is the Kloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam. Signed "P d' hooch f. 1670" ; canvas, 27 inches by 23^ inches. A picture of similar dimensions was sold at the Leers sale (201), but this may be the picture formerly in the Hope collection in London (195). Sales. (Possibly) J. Caudri, Amsterdam, September 6, 1809, No. 24 (31 florins, Dupre) ; but this only measured 22 inches by 20-3 inches. [Compare 182.] Madame Camper, Leyden, 1827 (bought in at 4000 florins). Meijnders, 1838 (3311 florins). Afterwards in the Van der Hoop collection, No. 50 in the 1876 catalogue. Now in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest ; No. 1249 in the 1905 catalogue (formerly No. 682). 174. A PARTY AT DINNER ON A TERRACE. This is a composition of eleven figures. In the foreground is a gentleman, wearing a yellow doublet with a red cloak over his left shoulder. Beside him are two ladies in light blue and yellow. To the left behind the table a couple are conversing. A swan-pie is being served up near them. In the background are two men-servants with baskets on their heads. Three pillars enclose the terrace ; to the left hangs a red curtain, while to the right is a landscape with poplar trees rising against an evening sky. Signed, on the footstool to the left of the gentleman, in a very unusual form, "P. D. Hoog" ; canvas, 34 inches by 40^ inches. Examined in the possession of J. E. Goedhart, in Amsterdam, on December 23, 1895. 175. A GIRL AND A GENTLEMAN AT A TABLE. In a room with an open window a gentleman sits, pen in hand, at a table. A girl in a red dress with a yellow apron, who stands on the right with her figure turned to the left, holds out a paper to him with her left hand,