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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 551 her to the right another garment, seen in full light, is thrown over a wooden partition. Above the woman's head is a window, between two cross* beams. In the middle of the background a gentleman with long curls, a slouch hat, and a cloak, enters at the stable-door. Panel, 2i| inches by 19^ inches. Exhibited at Leyden, 1906, No. 21. In the collection of F. Fleischmann, London. 270. THREE FIGURES IN A STABLE. The picture is yellowish in tone. A soldier, wearing a breastplate and a sash over a red costume, stands with his back to the spectator. He holds up a jug in his right hand ; he lifts his left foot as if he would dance. A woman, facing the spectator and seen in full light, sits beside him playing a mandoline. To the right a man, dressed in yellow and seen in profile to the left, is looking on. This type of man is very characteristic of P. de Hooch. He wears high boots with flaps, and has his legs crossed. Upon a table beside him are a straw-covered bottle, a full glass, a pipe, tobacco, and a white cloth. The light falls from a window on the left. The painting is very thin and liquid. The picture corresponds to a marked degree with the early pictures at Dublin (253) and St. Petersburg (75). Panel, 17^ inches by 14 inches. Exhibited at Diisseldorf, 1886, No. 58 ; it was there ascribed to P. Codde, though, according to the catalogue, it was not characteristic of Codde's style. In the collection of the late Commerzienrat St. C. Michel, in Mainz. 271. CAVALIER AMONG PEASANTS. To the left, in a humble room with beams across the ceiling and a hearth at the back, sits a young peasant woman facing the spectator at a three-legged stool which serves her as a table. She has been peeling potatoes and putting them into a pail of water at her side. With her right hand on her breast, she looks at a cavalier standing to the right ; hat in hand, he appears to be drinking to her. The cavalier has long curls, an open jacket with slashed sleeves, breeches, and high boots with flaps. His raised arm partly conceals the figure of a man who sits smoking between him and the woman. On the table are a mug and a pewter plate. To the left, at an open door, which looks out upon a landscape, stands a young peasant with his hat in his hand. It is an early work. Panel, 27! inches by 22| inches. Sale. Pieter Calkoen, Amsterdam, September 10, 1781, No. 65 (130 florins, Nijman at whose sale the picture did not appear). Now in the Leuchtenberg collection, St. Petersburg. 272. SOLDIERS IN A TAVERN. To the left three soldiers are seated at a table by a small window with shutters, through which the light streams in. One soldier, in a light grey hat, sits facing the spectator on the farther side of the table, and plays the flute. The face of the second, seated to the right and seen in profile to the left, is hidden by his dark-brown slouch hat ; he wears a light buff" jerkin, a cuirass, and an orange sash. He holds a pipe in his left hand and a glass in his right, and looks at the hostess who, dressed in red with white cap and collar, stands,