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 530 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. INTERIOR. Sm. 34. The party are assembled in the left-hand corner of a room, beside a large window, the upper part of which is fastened back. At the left corner of the table stands a girl, pouring out wine ; she wears a red jacket trimmed with white fur, a blue skirt, and a large white apron. A young gentleman, wearing a white costume, with a broad collar and a slouch hat, stands behind the table looking at the girl ; he leans with his right hand on a chair-back, and holds a pipe in his left. To the right of the table sits a gentleman in a black cape with long curls which conceal his profile ; he takes the arm of a girl, who sits beside him and regards him with a watchful and mischievous look. In the right foreground lies his slouch hat. In the background to the right is a bed with curtains j above it hangs a portrait of a man, on the left of which is a map of a Dutch harbour with an inscription. The light falls from the left. It is a good picture, powerful and luminous in the rendering of light and colour. Burger regarded it as a Vermeer j see Gazette des Beaux Arts for 1866, p. 551, No. 14. Panel, 27 inches by 22| inches. In the collection of Baron Delessert, 1833 (Sm.). Sales. Frai^ois Delessert, Paris, May 15, 1869, No. 36 (150,000 francs). B. Narischkine, Paris, April 5, 1883 (160,000 francs). Secretan, Paris, July i, 1889 (270,000 francs). Afterwards in the possession of Durand-Ruel of Paris. Now in the Havemeyer collection in New York. 193. The Social Glass. In the collection of the late C. T. Yerkes in New York. 194. OFFICER AND GIRL. Sm. 68 ; de G. 67. In the middle of a room, paved with black, red, and white tiles, hung with gilt leather and ceiled in blue painted wood, a cavalier sits facing the spectator. He wears yellow breeches, which form a strong note of colour j he has embroidered sleeves and a yellow bandolier, and holds a pipe in his left hand. He looks at a girl, dressed in a light blue jacket with white trimming and a red skirt, who stands at his left holding a wine-glass. Behind them is a bed with curtains. To the left another cavalier with his hat in his left hand looks out of a window. Two coats-of-arms with a chevron are indistinctly visible on the window. To the right is a second room, paved with tiles, in which a woman sits sewing beside a chimney-piece, on which are a couple of plates. The effect of sunlight is not well rendered. Signed to the left on the back of the chair " P D HOOCH " ; canvas, 23^ inches by 26 inches. Mentioned by Waagen, Kunstkr und Kiinstzoerke, 1843, p. 209 ; and by Parthey (i. 622), as in the Landauerbriiderhaus at Nuremberg, 1863. Perhaps identical with the picture of the Jan de Groot sale, in Amsterdam, December 10, 1804, No. 25. The man, not the woman, is described as having a glass in his hand ; but the figures stand close together, and their hands might, at a hasty glance, be easily confused. Sm., in error, said that the picture was in 1833 in "a small public collec- tion at Ratisbon." Formerly in the Munich Gallery. Now in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg, No. 3 3 1 in the 1 893 catalogue.