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 52 4 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. while pressing her right hand to her breast. To the left, half-hidden by the curtain at the open window, is another figure. The window looks on a landscape. A reflection of light in the window-pane is rendered in a forced manner. To the right is a half-opened door. The signature is dubious ; but, though the picture is catalogued as " in the manner of De Hooch," it is a genuine work of his. Signed in full, but without the Christian name, on the crossbar of the table, and dated 1683 ; 17^ inches by 15 inches. Sale. Haemacher, in Amsterdam, November 30, 1897, No. 48 (270 florins). Afterwards in the possession of Mos, in Arnhem. 176. THE TRUMPETER. De G. 63. In the middle distance to the left, beside a high window that is partly open, two ladies and a gentleman sit at a table covered with a Turkey carpet. The lady, who sits behind the table facing the spectator, appears to be dozing. The gentleman to the left, in a yellow doublet, is smoking a pipe. The lady to the right, in blue and white with a silk skirt a figure that is very carefully painted for the late period converses with a cavalier who stands at her right and drinks to her. The cavalier wears a yellow doublet with a red sash and embroidered sleeves and a cuirass, and has long curls. In the right foreground stands a soldier in red, with a slouch hat, spurred boots, and a sword, who is about to blow a trumpet. To his right is a hunting-dog. In the left foreground is a wine-cooler with a vine-leaf. The room is adorned with pilasters and with pictures let into the wall. One of these pictures over the door at the back represents Venus and Cupid. The door looks into a pillared vestibule ; beyond it is a park with statues, and a church-tower rises in the distance. The picture dates from about 1660, or may be later. Signed, above the door, " Pieter de Hooch " ; canvas, 34 inches by inches. [Compare Havard, 116, i.J Sale. Aug. Stevens, in Paris, May I, 1867 (the Berlin Museum). Transferred from the Berlin Museum in 1884 to Magdeburg. No. 1401 in the 1886 catalogue of the Berlin Storeroom. Retransferred to Berlin in 1904. Now in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1904 catalogue, No. 1401. 177. YOUNG WOMAN AT A WINDOW WITH A LETTER. The window is open and looks upon the houses and towers of a town. The woman wears a red dress and a white apron. To the right are a chair, a table with a cover, and a red footstool. It is a genuine work, probably of the same date as the Berlin picture (176). Signed, on the right upon the crossbar of the table, " P. d' Hooch " ; canvas, 21 inches by 22 inches. Exhibited at Buda-Pesth in 1888, No. 295, by the owner, the Countess Palffy Palme. 178. Interior. Six persons and a dog are assembled in a room lighted by a window on the left. A girl sits to the left at a table with a white cloth, upon which are dishes and fruit. Beside her is a man, in a black costume with a hat, who is smoking a pipe. Behind the table stands a servant-girl in a red dress with white apron and sleeves, holding a glass in