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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 541 her lap ; near her are two boys holding fruit. Ascribed to Pieter de Hooch. Canvas, 26 inches by 32 inches. Sale. Comte R. de Cornelissen, Brussels, May n, 1857, No. 31. 238. A Lady and Gentleman in an Interior. A man holding a pipe sits at a table covered with a Turkey carpet, and looks at a lady who brings him a glass of wine. The walls of the room are adorned with pictures and a mirror. In an anteroom, seen through the open door, a youth is listening. Two windows, one of which is half-covered by a purple curtain, flood the scene with light. 30^ inches by 36^ inches. Sales. Meffre, senior, Paris, 1846, No. 32. D. van der Schrieck, of Louvain, in Brussels, April 8, 1861, No. 36 (1700 francs, Cocart). 238^. Four Women sitting round a Table. In the possession of Van Winterfeldt, Berlin, in 1863 (Parthey, i. 622). 23 8. Three Gentlemen in Black in a Library. The heads are very lifelike ; the colouring is transparent and warm. In both respects the picture is nearly related to the work of Th. de Keyzer. It is questionable whether it is a De Hooch. Mentioned by Waagen, Die Gemaldesammlung in der Eremitage, etc., 1864, p. 430, as in the Lazarev collection in St. Petersburg. 239. The Music-Party. Sm. 6 ; de G. 80. At a table in the fore- ground of a handsomely furnished room sits a lady, dressed in blue and white silk, holding up a glass of sack, which a gentleman standing beside her has filled. To the left stands a lady, dressed in red and yellow silk, who is tuning a guitar and converses with a gentleman sitting at her side. Farther to the left a doorway looks into a garden, where a lady and gentleman are conversing ; beyond the garden is a house brightly illumined by sunshine. In the right-hand corner of the room are two comely figures of musicians, a girl playing the guitar and a boy blowing the clarionet. In the foreground is a dark-brown dog. Canvas, 41 inches by 49^ inches. Mentioned by Burger (pp. 252-3). [Compare 200.] Sale. Abbe Gevigney, 1779 (withdrawn). In the possession of Messrs. Wood burn in 1833 (Sm.). Sold in 1854 for 216 to Lawrie. Afterwards in the Boymans collection and bequeathed with it to Rotterdam. It was described in the 1859 catalogue of the Boymans Museum, and perished in the fire at the Museum in 1864. 240. Lady with Needlework and a Gentleman with a Letter. Sm. 44. In a room paved with black and white marble sits a young woman with a sewing-cushion and some needlework. Her brown curls fall over her collar : she wears a plume in her hair, earrings, and a pearl neck- lace. She is dressed in a red velvet jacket, a yellow silk skirt, and a white