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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 527 who stands close to the window. She holds up a glass of wine in her right hand, as if she were about to give it to the cavalier with the pipes. A servant-girl comes from the right with a pan of burning peat. Behind her is a chimney-piece with two pilasters, above which hangs a large figure- piece. Between the chimney-piece and the window to the left is a map. Signed " P. D. H. " ; canvas, 29 inches by 25 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (i. 403) in the collection of Sir Robert Peel ; and by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite (ii. 220). Sales. Seb. Heemskerck, in Amsterdam, March 31, 1749 (Hoet, 2 5 X ) No. 189 (70 florins). Van Leyden, Paris, September 10, 1804 (5500 francs, Paillet). Afterwards in the Pourtales collection, in Paris, which was purchased by Smith and Emmerson in 1826 ; sold by them to Sir Robert Peel, Bart. Purchased for the nation in 1871 with the rest of the Peel collection. Now in the National Gallery in London, No. 834 in the 1906 catalogue. 184. INTERIOR WITH SIX FIGURES. To the left by a half-opened window is a woman in red. A gentleman in brown sits on the table beside her with his left foot on a chair ; he has a glass of white wine in his left hand, and with the other encircles the woman's neck. In the middle, facing the spectator, sits a woman on a broad low couch. A gentleman, in a long brown peruke and a blue uniform trimmed with red, half reclines beside her ; he clasps her waist with his right arm and with the left hand offers her a glass of wine. By the chimney-piece at the back a gentleman smokes a pipe j near him is a table with a red cloth upon which is a mug. To the right at the back a man-servant goes to an open door which looks on a sunlit garden. A dog in the right foreground watches him. Over the door is a bust of a woman ; over the chimney- piece hangs a picture of Venus and Cupid in a landscape. Two other pictures are indistinctly visible on the wall to the left. It is a late work, but not bad for the late period ; the red and blue of the uniform, in particular, are not unpleasing. Signed in full and in the usual manner on the crossbar of the couch. Formerly in the possession of F. Kleinberger, the Paris dealer. In the possession of Sir G. Donaldson, in London, March 1902. 185. INTERIOR, WITH TWO GENTLEMEN SEATED. Two gentlemen are seated in a well-furnished room. One, wearing a black costume and a large hat, and holding a pipe in his left hand, con- verses with a woman. She wears a blue dress with red ribbons, a white jacket and a white cap, and holds a glass of wine. The other gentleman has a leathern doublet and is armed ; his red cloak hangs over the back of his chair. An open door in the background looks into another room and, beyond it, upon red roofs. 31 inches by 26 inches. Exhibited at the Guildhall, London, in 1894, No. 53. Now in the collection of Mr. A. Gibbs, London. 186. WOMAN SEWING AND CAVALIER. Sm. 46 ; deG. 45. The woman sits with her needlework on her lap ; opposite her, with