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 542 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. apron. She listens attentively with folded hands to a gentleman, sitting beside her at a table with his face to the spectator, who reads a letter to her. He is dressed in a brown doublet, knee-breeches, and brown stock- ings fastened below the knee with jewelled garters, and wears a black, gold- laced hat. On the table, covered with a green cloth, are a book and a sheet of paper. Beside the lady is a work-basket, with some linen on the floor. On the right are a small lacquered chest and the chimney-piece, on which stands a Chinese vase, and above which hangs a picture. Another picture of a landscape hangs on the wall, with a chair beneath it. The figure of the young woman is in full light ; the rays of sunshine play on the floor and wall. "This is a highly finished production " (Sm.). Signed upon a stool " P. d. Hoogh " ; canvas, 30^ inches by 27^ inches. Sale. Baron G. Th. A. M. van Brienen van de Grootelindt of Amsterdam, in Paris, May 8, 1865, No. 15 (12,000 francs); it was in this collection in 1833 (Sm.). 2400. Lady reading and Cavalier. A lady sits reading. A man- servant stands at a table with fruit and wine upon it. A cavalier stands at the door. Sales. Sir T. Baring, London, June 2, 1848 (72, Theobald). Bryant, London, 1865 (74: us., Graves). 240^. A Lady, with a Man looking at her. Sale. Rotterdam, June 23, 1867, No. 31. 240^. An Interior with Figures spinning and reading. Panel, 14^ inches by 17 inches. Sale. P. van Arnhem, Groningen, September 24, 1868, No. 102. 240^. Interior with Figures. Exhibited at Leeds, 1868, No. 590. In the collection of Robert Napier. 240*. Interior with Cavaliers and Ladies. Formerly in the collection of Edmund Higginson, Saltmarsh Castle. Sale. Albert Levi, London, July 4, 1874 G I2 7 Noseda). 240/1 An Interior. 25! inches by 22 inches. Compare Havard (117, 3). Formerly in the collection of the Comte de Turenne, and exhibited in 1874 at the Alsace-Lorraine Exhibition, Paris, No. 249. 240^. Ladies and Gentlemen at Breakfast. The play of light on the figures is well rendered. Sale. Graham, New York, May 23, 1876, No. 88. 241. Lady and Gentleman with a Dog. The lady stands on the right ; the gentleman sits in the middle, stroking a dog. To the left is another room. The light enters from the right. 2i| inches by 25 inches. Sale. H. A. J. Munro, London, June i, 1878, No 313.