Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 1, 1908.djvu/559

 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 535 207*7, b. Two Interiors. Canvas, 24 inches by 18 inches. Sale. O. van Cattenburg and P. de Waart, The Hague, September 29, 1779, No. 328 (38 florins). 208. An Interior, with Persons playing Cards and drinking. At a table, beside which stands a woman with a child in her arms. Panel, 14 inches by 16 inches. Sale. William Kinckee and others, Leyden, April 9, 1782, No. 42 (15 florins, Heenck). 209. A Party in a Room. Two ladies and two gentlemen sit at a table with a cloth. One lady offers fruit on a silver dish to an officer who drains his glass. The other gentleman smokes his pipe by the chimney- piece. A youth with a bottle of wine and a dish of fruit enters the room. Canvas, 34 inches by 41 inches. Sales. Nicolas van Bremen, The Hague, April 3, 1769 (Hoet, ii. 487), No. 59 (20 florins 5). P. Locquet, Amsterdam, September 22, 1783, No. 140 (70 florins, Yver). 210. A well-furnished Room. In it stands a table with a cloth upon which is fruit. A door looks into another room and, beyond it, into a vestibule. Canvas, 36 inches by 44 inches. Sale. Jac. Bergeon, The Hague, November 4, 1789, No. 14 (7 florins). Probably identical with the picture of the 1772 sale at The Hague (202). 211. Interior. In a room are two gentlemen and a girl; another girl brings a basket of fruit. Canvas on panel, 23 inches by 19 inches. Sale. J. H. Quinkhart and J. Roller, Amsterdam, December 19, 1798, No. I (15 florins). 212. A Maid -Servant sweeping the Floor of a Room. The spectator looks through a window into an adjoining room, and sideways through a door into a farther room where a lady sits at her toilet-table reading a letter. The contrast of sunlight and the ordinary daylight is finely rendered. Canvas, 31 inches by 25 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, May 7, 1804, No. 75. 213. Interior, with a Lady and Gentleman and Maid-Servant. In an interior a man in a Spanish costume converses with a lady who holds an open letter in her hand. By the wall at the back is a maid- servant sewing. Another maid-servant comes down a staircase with a basket of washing. In the centre two dogs are playing. There is a view of an adjoining room, from which the lady seems to have just come. The sunlight is naturally rendered ; the figures are comely and pleasing. Canvas, 24 inches by 29 inches. Sale. Maria Theresia Wittebol and de Labistraeten, Antwerp, June 19, 1804, No. 69 (180 francs).